Johannes Itten Quotes

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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

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

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

Johannes Itten

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

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

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

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten

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Born: November 11, 1888

Died: March 25, 1967 (aged 78)

Bio: Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school.

Known for:

The Elements of Color
The art of color (1961)
Design and form
The Color Star
Kunst der Farbe (1961)

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