Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.
Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures
What if two negatives make an affirmative. . . does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.