A Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Canvas Empty Never

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Robert Rauschenberg
American - Artist
October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008

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

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

Robert Motherwell

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

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

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

An empty canvas is full.

Robert Rauschenberg

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Peter Max

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Wassily Kandinsky

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

Ragnar Tørnquist

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

Wassily Kandinsky

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

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

Cynthia Voigt

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Pam Brown

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.