White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. . . . God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Source: Tremendous Trifles, A Piece of Chalk (1909).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.