Top 1200 Empty Canvas Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.'

You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

The objective is not so much to walk your dog, as it is to empty him.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

A writer has to keep one foot in the street and one pocket empty and be hungry for it.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.

For a long time I was kind of a glass-half-empty type of person.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and -women who are telling the story, it's the greatest result. I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the viewer’s interpretation. It’s very strange to pour your heart out onto canvas and then put it on display for the whole world to see.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.