Johannes Itten

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color…

— Johannes Itten

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

— Johannes Itten

Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve…

— Johannes Itten

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

— Johannes Itten

Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.

— Johannes Itten

Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper…

— Johannes Itten

The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

— Johannes Itten

Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world,…

— Johannes Itten

If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create…

— Johannes Itten

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

— Johannes Itten

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with…

— Johannes Itten

Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.

— Johannes Itten