"We knew that this road was built in the 1960s, but we took a bit of artistic licence".
Examination of details in the construction, however, reveals that Anthony allowed himself some artistic licence.
"artistic licence" is employed to create "ideal" views of the subject cities.
The fair today isn't quite so tasteful or Lowry may have been using some artistic licence.
I don't care if you use artistic licence on other parts of my body, but my face must look exactly as it does now.
Some artistic licence was used to find the appropriate props.
But when the facts are this colourful, why take artistic licence?
If you saw this sort of thing in a Turner painting, you would put it down to artistic licence.
"Of course, Rembrant has taken some artistic licence when it comes to dimensions."
This distance is therefore linked to the artistic licence Tennyson often wrote about.