It's more like Picasso staring at an empty canvas for many hours in intense concentration.

Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas.

"It's like they invited us to an empty canvas they're working on together," she said.

The barn, which has been converted to a studio with a small bathroom, is a vast empty canvas.

Or maybe sticking a duck's feet in a can of wet red paint, and having it walk across an empty canvas, is a better example.

"I just give the artist the cup and say, 'This is like an empty canvas.' "

Like an enormous empty canvas, the site seems to have invited dreamers.

Naturalistic images all, they stand in an otherwise empty canvas like a totem.

It's the blank piece of paper, the empty canvas.

For each of us it is an empty canvas on which we must paint our lives.