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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."

"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

"The more you look, the less you see."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."


"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."


"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."


"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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