Empty Quotes

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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… — Henri Matisse
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty… — Georgia O'Keeffe
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. — Tori Amos
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the… — Lewis Mumford
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber
I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and… — Peter McWilliams
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are… — Dogen
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really… — Mary Ellen Mark
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words. — Stephen Spender
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that… — Vaclav Havel
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay… — George Sewell
I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue. — Yves Klein
A canvas is never empty. — Robert Rauschenberg
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit… — Christopher Alexander
The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied,… — J C Ryle

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