Piccaso said, "Art is a lie that lets you see the truth."

I like that. It is a person's idea of what that truth is as depicted by the restraints of their talents in a given expressive discipline. In that it is not a molecule for molecule rendering of what the artist is seeing, it is, still, not exactly accurate---and therefore some might say that deviation makes it a lie. Contemplating it, doors are opened in our minds that might've stayed shut were it not for our encounter with the particular work of art.

Fartsy, on the other hand, is just a cigar. (But a cigar smells worse than a fartsy.)

Art Thieme