Johannes Itten Quotes

#1. 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

#2. But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me
precisely.

Sydney Jane Baily

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

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

Johannes Itten

#9. We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

Robert Bly

#10. 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

#11. Oh, hasn't he told you? The ones before. None of them last, you see. That's the whole point.

J.P. Delaney

#12. I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

John Lithgow

#13. Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

John William Strutt

#14. A movement election is a different type of election. It's an election where the people start moving into a direction because they think the country is failing or going down the tubes or the establishment has failed them.

Laura Ingraham

#15. You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers' crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever.

William Apess

#16. Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

John Woolman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I like Math because there's only one right answer.

Brendan Fehr

#20. 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

#21. He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

Drew Karpyshyn

#22. As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the
entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual
content, is increasingly making it difficult for young people to make
informed decisions about sex

Oche Otorkpa

#23. Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Peter Guber