In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

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The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

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Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

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