Active Quote by Jan Tschichold Download Open image “White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.” — Jan Tschichold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Active Backgrounds Design Elements Experience Passive Space Typography White White space
“White space (sometimes called “negative space”) is the space in a composition where the subject is not.” — Dina Wakley Copy Share Image
Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger. — Emily Henderson Copy Share Image
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships — Lyonel Feininger Copy Share Image
“I have thus defined the concept of the “Background” as the set of nonintentional or preintentional capacities that enable intentional states of function. But” — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of… — Witney Carson Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
