Blank Quotes
539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of…
— Stephen Shore
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There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw…
— Stephen King
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The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can…
— Timothy Hallinan
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A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
— Stephanie Perkins
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I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really…
— Tim Burton
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
— Irvine Welsh
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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those…
— Wilfrid
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
— John Prine
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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…
— Richard Diebenkorn
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Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.
— Crazy Legs
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When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
— Wayne LaPierre
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Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
— Alvin Martin
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It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
— S.A. Bodeen
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
— Taiye Selasi
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a…
— Thomas Chalmers
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I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it…
— Victoria Wood
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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom…
— John Milton
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the…
— Celia Thaxter
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That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
— Thomas Gibbons
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Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined…
— Jane Brody
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Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident…
— William Carlos Williams
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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
— Elliott Smith
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For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill…
— John Tillotson
Who Wrote These Blank Quotes
450 authors contributed a total of 539 Blank Quotes, led by these top contributors: