Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

- Johannes Itten

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

- 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

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 d…

- Johannes Itten

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 …

- 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 hig…

- Johannes Itten

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

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

- Johannes Itten