Empty Stage Quotes

• Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Play, Actors, Empty

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.15, Penguin

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• A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

  G. Wilson Knight

  Waiting, Theatre, Looks

  G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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