Quotes from Johannes Itten

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

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

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

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.

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

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.