White Space Quotes

• White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

  Jan Tschichold

  White, Space, Design

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• There's relief in white space for the reader.

  Leni Zumas

  White, Space, Relief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

  Peter Thiel

  Single Mom, White, Space

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. June 15, 2012.

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• We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, White, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 20, 2015

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• There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

  Norbert Bisky

  White, Space, Painting

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• I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Future, Years, White

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• Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Kings, White, Space

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Wall, Thinking, White

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

  John Burroughs

  Real, Eye, Science

  John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”

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• I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.

  Scott D. Anthony

  White, Space, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept idea. No matter how creative you are - and thus how much creative space you need - there's always some fundamental values and drivers your brand should seek to address - in order to become successful.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Successful, Ideas, Creative Space

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Inspiration, White

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• The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

  Pattiann Rogers

  White, Space, Silence

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, White, Space

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

  Nicholson Baker

  Swimming, White, Space

  Nicholson Baker (2014). “The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels”, p.22, Penguin

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• Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Expression, White, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Inspiration, Ideas

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

  Richard Corliss

  Air, White, Space

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Writing, White, Space

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

  Richard Meltzer

  Book, Reading, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance to his country and to the mission at hand. But yet, there was always this unease plaguing me. "What are we doing here?" "Are we really fixing this country or are we doing more harm than good?" And the most pressing question: "How do we pull ourselves out of this quicksand?" I think I'm still there in that white space you mentioned, trying to get clarity for myself on what this war did to us as a nation.

  Dave Abrams

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't
  think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry
  of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems
  with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long
  before poets had to deal with the page and white
  space . . . it's natural.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, White, Space

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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