Picasso isn't saying art merely entertains us with pleasant falsehoods—he's describing something far stranger: that by deliberately distorting reality, an artist can expose what our everyday eyes miss. When you look at one of his fractured faces from multiple angles simultaneously, your brain has to abandon its comfortable assumptions about how vision works, and in that confusion, you grasp something true about perception itself that realistic painting never could. A photographer capturing her father's hands through warped glass might reveal his character more honestly than a photograph ever could, because the distortion forces us to *feel* something rather than simply observe it.