At Weimar, Itten teaches analysis. He shows slides to the students, who then have to draw certain essential elements, say, movement, the main line, a curve . . . He shows a Gothic figure, and then the weeping Magdalene from the Grünewald Altar. The students are working hard to extract the essence of this very complicated composition. Itten watches their fumblings, and roars: If you had any kind of artistic sensibility, you would not sit there drawing in the face of this sublime representation of tears — the sorrow of the world — you would be dissolved in tears yourselves! With these words, he rushes out, slamming the door behind him.