Active Quote by Jan Tschichold

“White space (sometimes called “negative space”) is the space in a composition where the subject is not.”

— Dina Wakley

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

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

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

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

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

— Lyonel Feininger

“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

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

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

— Stephen Sondheim

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

— Peter Paul Rubens

By law, all buildings should be white.

— Le Corbusier