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Johannes Itten was a Swiss writer known for his profound insights into nature and human life. His works are characterized by concise language and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership.

Kunst der Farbe

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The Elements of Color

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World Light Seems Form Sound Produce Color Flames Spoken Word Intonation

Author:Johannes Itten

“Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.”

Play Joy

Author:Johannes Itten

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

Persons Helping Form Law Power Creative Color Objectives

Book:Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later

Source: Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later

“The effects of color are controlled by intuition.”

Effects Color Intuition Controlled

Author:Johannes Itten

“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.”

Feels Individual Wish Color Masters Endless Combination

Author:Johannes Itten

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

World Children Ideas Light Color

Author:Johannes Itten

“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.”

Mystery Color Deeper Utility Devotee

Book:Kunst der Farbe

Source: Kunst der Farbe

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

Energy Force Color Positively Radiant

Book:The Elements of Color

Source: The Elements of Color

“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.”

World Firsts Children Ideas Soul Light Spirit Darkness Color Phenomenon Counterparts Aboriginal Darkness To Light Colorless

Book:Kunst der Farbe

Source: Kunst der Farbe

“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.”

Ifs Way Looks Able Color Ought Masterpiece Unknowing

Book:The Elements of Color

Source: The Elements of Color

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

Universe Black White Black And White

Author: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.”

Book Ends Walks Teacher Carriages Vedas

Author:Johannes Itten

About the Author

Born: November 11, 1888
Died: March 25, 1967
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 12

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