Blank Canvas Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

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.

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.

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.

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

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

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.

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

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.

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.'

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had.

We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

I was blown away by being able to color.

Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

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.