Home / Topics / Empty Quotes

Empty Quotes

Browse 2805 quotes about Empty.

Empty Quotes

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”

Men I Can Space Walks Stage Needed Empty Theatre Engaged Empty Space

Book:The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”

Source: Waterland

“Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.”

Source: What's So Great About Christianity

“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.”

Form Space Sun Sky Huge Moon Empty Tiny Horizon Immense Impressed Overwhelmed Empty Space Crescent

Author:Joan Miro

“Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.”

Space Lonely Empty Space Between

Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Believe Art Ideas Reason Would Be Artist Space Produce Empty Good Ideas Junk Empty Space

Author:Andy Warhol

“Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.”

People Thinking Believe Persons Pain Order Turns Understanding Space Situation Enemy Practice Listening Empathy Capacity Empty Healed Very Deep

Author:Nhat Hanh

“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.”

“I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.”

Believe I Believe Space Wonderful Empty I Believe In Wonderful Things Empty Space

Author:Anselm Kiefer