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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.

Johannes Itten

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Johannes Itten
Age: 78 †
Born: 1888
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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