Empty Canvas Quotes

• An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Canvas, Wonder, Empty

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

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• I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Hypnosis, Canvas

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• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Reality, Dull, Facts

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

  Robert Motherwell

  Beautiful, Canvas, Empty

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• 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

  Paper, Canvas, Empty

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Want, Canvas, Empty

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• An empty canvas is full.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Canvas, Empty

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• 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

  Future, Journey, Desire

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• 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

  Creativity, Misery, Canvas

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• The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. 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

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• 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

  Art, Sound, Radio

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• Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Guarantees That, Mind

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• No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Fetch, Cash

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• 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

  Voice, Expectations, May

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

  Ragnar Tørnquist

  Two, Canvas, Empty

  "Fictional character: April Ryan". "The Longest Journey" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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