I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.