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“I came to a sketch where the space between my arm and Greta’s arm, the shape of the place between us, had been darkened in. The negative space. That’s what Finn called it. He was always trying to get me to understand negative space. And I did. I could understand what he was saying, but it didn’t come naturally to me. I had to be reminded to look for it. To see the stuff that’s there but not there. In this sketch, Finn had colored in the negative space, and I saw that it made a shape that looked like a dog’s head. Or, no—of course, it was a wolf’s head, tilted up, mouth open and howling. It wasn’t obvious or anything. Negative space was kind of like constellations. The kind of thing that had to be brought to your attention. But the way Finn did it was so skillful. It was all in the way Greta’s sleeve draped and the way my shoulder angled in. So perfect. It was almost painful to look at that negative space, because it was so smart. So exactly the kind of thing Finn would think of. I touched my finger to the rough pencil lines, and I wished I could let Finn know that I saw what he’d done. That I knew he’d put that secret animal right between Greta and me.”

Art Sisters Negative Space

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“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.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“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.”

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Author:Aaron Belz

“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.”

Way Differences Space Negative Flow Seasons Appeals Gates Breeze Negative Space

Author:Bob Dylan

“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?”

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Author:Emma Bull

“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.”

People World Important Body Order Memories Space White Teach Air Painting Conversation Laughter Negative Breaths Our Relationship Canvas Space Between Negative Space

Book:The Lost Wife

Source: The Lost Wife

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

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Author:Edie Brickell

“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.”

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Author:Taryn Simon

“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.”

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Author:Rebecca Miller

“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.”

Thinking Space Audience Scene Negative Depth Screens Zero Coming Out Negative Space

Author:Keanu Reeves

“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.”

Heart Space Crime Painting Wall Negative Holes Commit Guilty Framed Wallets Negative Space

Author:Marilyn Manson

“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.”

Firsts Mean Lasts Felt Space Cutting Eternal First Time Negative Breaths Victim Drowning Solidity Negative Space

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

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

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Author:Richard R. Nelson

“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.”

People Ifs Trying Years I Can Enough Light Difficult Can Do Space Color Negative I Have Learned Angle Negative Space

Book:Falling from Horses

Source: Falling from Horses