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

Johannes Itten

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Johannes Itten
Age: 78 †
Born: 1888
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
Architect
Drawer
Painter
Photographer
Writer
Thun BE
Johannes van Itten
Ideas
Without
Primordial
Children
Colors
Life
Appears
World
Color
Dead
Light

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