Itten Quotes

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

Johannes Itten

#2. Religious people are so confident of having God by their side that they think they are superior to everyone else

Elif Shafak

#3. when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.

Michio Kaku

#4. I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Guess it wasn't all fun
and games being a champion.

Amy Harmon

#10. I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

James Drummond Burns

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

Johannes Itten

#12. Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged

Jeff Shaara

#13. 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

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

#16. The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

Johannes Itten

#17. Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

Mother Angelica

#18. Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

Ron Kauk

#19. Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

Johannes Itten

#20. Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, to the machinery of the world.

Gunter Eich

#21. Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.

Carlo Carretto

#22. He smelled like family ... and Javier, but I took that as a good sign.

R.K. Lilley

#23. Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

Leon Brown

#24. I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I had a daughter to feed. I couldn't keep doing something full time that didn't pay the bills.

Doc Brown