I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
You can't go by what things look like on paper.