It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time,… — Charlotte Gerson Copy Share Image
But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
