|
Johannes Itten - From the Colour category:
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Colour category:
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Colour category:
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Education category:
Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Knowledge category:
If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Light category:
-The Art of Color, 1961
Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness... Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Play category:
Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play. (Johannes Itten)
Johannes Itten - From the Power category:
The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift. (Johannes Itten)
| 
