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• Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
• It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior…
• I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
• In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
• Color deceives continuously.
• We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
• I prefer to see with closed eyes.
• Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one…
• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
• A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
• One line plus one line results in many meanings.
• To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of…

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