Itten Color 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

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

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. — Donna Mills

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player. — Lee Trevino

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

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove. — Dominic Raab

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

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all. — Will Durant

Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours. — Roy Orbison

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

Victories in the field," he commented, "count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home. — Anthony Everitt

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 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

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength ... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole. — Adrienne Rich

She was woman, she was wildwood, she was whore, witch, wolverine. The gold ring on her finger shackled her to reality, to the world beyond the wilderness - and my Isola, this woman, she loved you so deeply that she wanted to wrap you softly in herself, only to protect you, not realising that those bones of hers would instead form a cage around you. — Allyse Near

Ren took off his jacket, which slicited a squeak from Jennifer who was now totally focused on Ren's golden-bronze biceps. His perfectly fitted muscle shirt showed off his extremely well-developed arms and chest.
I hissed at him quietly, For heaven's sake, Ren! You're going to give the women heart palpitations! — Colleen Houck

We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe) — Aldous Huxley

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

Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou