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“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.”

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Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki

Semir Zeki is a renowned neuroscientist and educator, born in 1940. His research in the field of neuroscience has had a profound impact on understanding the processes of human vision and cognition. more

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