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If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.200, GENERAL PRESS
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it