Blank Canvas Quotes - Page 2

• You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Writing, Eye

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

  Jake Owen

  Art, Believe, Giving

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• Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if I don't feel a strong spark of excitement or creativity. Sometimes it is very difficult to get things flowing. It's important to be in a peaceful state of mind, and then I invite the spirits to come into the studio. I don't stare into a blank canvas or paper. I look through my various collections of books, toys, statues, photographs and other things, and something will trigger an idea. My studio is packed full of things that inspire me.

  Mark Ryden

  Strong, Moving, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

  Charlize Theron

  Jobs, Character, Canvas

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• Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Forever, Energy

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

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• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  Bob Beauprez

  Stars, Victory, Voters

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• I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

  Jonathan Meades

  Construction Industry, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life.

  Steve Coogan

  Strong, Church, Culture

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

  Milton Resnick

  Fall, Men, Canvas

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• The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

  Damien Hirst

  Procrastination, Guy, Way

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• The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.

  Eddie Vedder

  Kind, Canvas, Republican

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insecurity, Canvas, Blank

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Hands, Keys

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• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  Ezra Miller

  Running, Personality, Return

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• I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally work within the structure of the Disney nature films. In a weird way, I like to think that animation is like painting, and Disney nature is like sculpting. Animation you start with a blank canvas and you paint. With Disney nature, you start with a big block of imagery and you hone it down into your final story. Somewhere you end up with something kind of pretty to watch.

  Roy Conli

  Block, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Men, Way, Canvas

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

  Shailene Woodley

  Art, Acting, Painting

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• ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

  Irving Stone

  Painting, Canvas, Reason

  Irving Stone (1937). “Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh”

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• I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

  Prabal Gurung

  School, Thinking, Knowing

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• It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

  David Luiz

  Fear, Artist, Strange

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• People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

  Maddie Ziegler

  Makeup, Hair, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

  Steve Martin

  Two, Needs, Done

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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