Negative Space Quotes

• I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

  Edie Brickell

  Space, Negative, Filling In

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• You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

  Richard R. Nelson

  Learning, Space, Honor

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• But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.

  Alyson Richman

  Laughter, Memories, Air

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin

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• Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

  Emma Bull

  Space, Negative, Ifs

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• Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

  Aaron Belz

  Space, Important, Negative

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

  Bob Dylan

  Space, Differences, Negative

  "Bob Dylan strikes heavy metal note with welded gates show" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

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• But I have learned over the years that all I can do is reach for something difficult - try to get the colors right and the negative space, the angle of the light. And if a few people can see it, that has to be enough.

  Molly Gloss

  Light, Color, Years

  Molly Gloss (2014). “Falling from Horses”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

  Taryn Simon

  Two, Space, Way

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• I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Cutting, Space

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Teacher, Light, Drawing

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Heart, Space

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• Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

  Keanu Reeves

  Zero, Thinking, Space

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