First Pages: A Theory of Pure Design by Denman Waldo Ross (1907)
DEFINITION OF POSITIONS
Take a pencil and a piece of paper. With the pencil, on the paper, mark a dot or point.
By this dot (A), three ideas are expressed: an idea of Tone, the tone of lead in the pencil; an idea of Measure, the extent of the space covered by the dot; and an idea of Shape, the character given to the dot by its outline or contour. The dot …