Artistic license
Deliberate distortion of rules or convention for aesthetic reasons / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the concept. For the free software license, see Artistic License. For the album by Santi Debriano, see Artistic License (album).
Artistic license (alongside more contextually-specific derivative terms such as poetic license, historical license, dramatic license, and narrative license) refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes. It can include the alteration of grammar or language, or the rewording of pre-existing text.