White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmat

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – G. K. Chesterton

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