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"For the emerging artist and in the field of aesthetics in general, are there certain indisputable laws of colour and its rules, or is the aesthetic assessment of colour just an expression of subjective opinion? My students often asked me this question, and each time I answered like this: "If you can create a masterpiece using colour without knowing it, then you don't need to know anything about these laws. If you can't create a masterpiece without knowing anything about the laws of colour, then you need to work on your knowledge."

Training and theory are needed when working with colour on a superficial level. When it comes to thorough work, intuition comes into play, and everything happens as if by itself.

I thoroughly studied colour with the great masters and made sure that they all had knowledge about it.

The science of colour by Goethe, Runge, Bezold, Chevreul and Helzel was extremely valuable to me.

I hope that in this book I have managed to explain many of the problems of colour. We need to deal not only with the fundamental laws and rules of objective art, but also delve into the sphere of subjective limitations, that is, the subjective assessment of colour. If we want to get rid of the subjective binding, we can only achieve this by studying and learning about objective laws," - from the foreword by Johannes Itten.