Itten Quotes & Sayings

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

Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it. — Hilton Als

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old. — Andre Simon

I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The effects of color are controlled by intuition. — Johannes Itten

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play. — Johannes Itten

I don't really have the time or energy to be bad ... — Sky Ferreira

I'm strangling her. She's not the one I want to eliminate. All this suppressing and holding her down, keeping her caged, perpetuating this fraud, this sham. I can't do it anymore." He shook his head. "I can't." He raised his chin and looked at me. "It won't go away. No matter how much I wish, or pray, she's always with me. She is me. I am her. I want to be her. I want to be Luna." "You — Julie Anne Peters

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

All theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification. — Neil Postman

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. — Liam Neeson

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

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

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers. — Carol Alt

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

Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue. — Hans Arp

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality — Charles De Gaulle

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