Blank Canvas Quotes

• Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

  Danny Kaye

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Canvas, Blank

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• An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Thinking, Difficult Work

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• A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Canvas, Possibility, Unlimited Possibilities

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• Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Canvas

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• I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Ideas, Faces, Arbitrary

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Canvas

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• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

  Arthur Lowe

  Art, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Idiot, Staring

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

  Simon Pegg

  Children, Decisions We Make, Details

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• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Broken, Passionate

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

  Guido Molinari

  Expression, Color, Trying

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• As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Creative, Want, Canvas

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• That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Dream, Art, Block

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• Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Blank, Staring

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Jazz, Canvas

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• If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

  Mardy Grothe

  Art, Memorable, People

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• What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

  Misty Copeland

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

  Martina McBride

  Fun, Together, Want

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• I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

  George Lucas

  Running, Lucky, Want

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• I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

  Kenny Florian

  Mma, Canvas, Excited

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• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Home, Hollywood

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• Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

  Amy Adams

  Makeup, Perfect, Interesting

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• I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

  Danny Pudi

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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