Art can tell the truth without describing facts.

A painting invents its scene and can still be truer than a report. It works by getting the feeling right, and feeling is a kind of accuracy that facts alone often miss. This is why fiction can describe a grief more precisely than a chronology of the events ever will.

If you are trying to make someone understand something difficult, consider that accuracy of detail may not be what carries it. A story, an image, a comparison. Getting the shape of the experience across is often the only translation that lands.