In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

- Bob Beauprez

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

- Damien Hirst

Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.

- Crescent Dragonwagon

I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.

- Christian Scott

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

- Cleo Moore

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

- Carly Simon

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

- Camille Pissarro

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

- Bibhu Mohapatra

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

- Barbara Januszkiewicz

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

- Bob Ross

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

- Andy Serkis

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

- Becky G

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

- Abbey Lee Kershaw

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

- Alice Lowe

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

- Alfred Sisley

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

- Anne Stevenson

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

- Arthur Lowe

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

- Arthur Smith

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

- Ang Lee

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

- Aaron Paul