Quotes About Empty Canvas

#1. Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

Wassily Kandinsky

#2. The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

Frank Herbert

#3. An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

Robert Rauschenberg

#4. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas.

Janet Fitch

#5. An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Wassily Kandinsky

#6. Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

Rajneesh

#7. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Lewis H. Lapham

#8. Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

Dane Cook

#9. It's harder than I imagined, to be alone. I suppose I might get used to it, like an empty canvas
you slowly begin to fill.

Gail Tsukiyama

#10. So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite ... The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

Ben Okri

#11. To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

Robert Motherwell

#12. I start to feel like an empty canvas under the hands of Michelangelo. No! Like a swimmer who's gone out to far in the ocean being pulled back to shore by a fashion lifeguard.

Alecia Whitaker

#13. Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

Julius Lester

#14. An empty canvas is full.

Robert Rauschenberg

#15. There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Ragnar Tornquist

#16. Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

R.D. Laing

#17. Maybe we walked past each other in the crowd." "No." "Why not?" "Because I wouldn't have walked past you.

Harper Fox

#18. The canvas isn't empty. It's full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don't even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it.

Jarod Kintz

#19. All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

Leslie Mann

#20. A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

Keith Richards

#21. Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room.

Kelsey Sutton

#22. the canvas is never empty

Gilles Deleuze

#23. What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

George Whitefield

#24. A canvas is never empty.

Robert Rauschenberg

#25. There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charlotte Bronte

#26. All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh

Lisa Wingate

#27. In a way it's like too serene or whatever - too empty. I feel that familiar feeling of being a dark smudge on this otherwise pristine white canvas. There's just no way to blend in out here.

Nic Sheff

#28. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.

Sarah Kay

#29. For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Pam Brown

#30. The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories ... They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

George Gilder

#31. I believe that much unseen is also here.

Walt Whitman

#32. I'd kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don't undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!

Pepper Winters

#33. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Janet Fitch