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Empty Space Quotes

What people find, or don't, in empty space.

These quotes treat empty space in very different ways, as a retreat from a chaotic house, a punchline about parking, and a literal staging choice for actors with nothing around them.

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Quotes by Roy H. Williams

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the...

Quotes by Robert Carlyle

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Quotes by Rhys Ifans

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Quotes by Renzo Piano

Depth Quotes

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the...

Quotes by Pico Iyer

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.

Quotes by Peter Brook

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.

Quotes by Misty Copeland

Sooner or later, The Rock's going to get tired of that empty space on his mantle where an Oscar should be, and that's when I'll get the phone call for the buddy movie that finally makes his career.

Quotes by Mick Foley

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Quotes by Michelangelo Antonioni

Emotion Quotes

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Quotes by Jules Renard

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Quotes by John Cage

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

Quotes by Dennis Bergkamp

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Quotes by Dee Hock

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Quotes by Anna Freud

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'empty space' mean across these quotes?
It shifts meaning quote to quote, a retreat from household chaos, an empty curb in a joke about parking, and a literal staging idea for actors performing with no set around them.
Why do people search for empty space quotes?
They're often used in writing about solitude, minimalism, or creative process, especially when the point is what empty space allows rather than what fills it.
Is there a quote about using empty space to escape noise or chaos?
Yes, one describes retreating into an empty space in the house specifically to put music on and move, away from arguing and general household noise.
Do any quotes use empty space as a joke?
One does, describing an optimist as someone who assumes an empty curbside parking spot won't have a hydrant hiding beside it.
Is there a quote about empty space in filmmaking?
Yes, one describes a directing idea: place performers in a bare, empty setting and let the audience supply the background themselves, leaving Depth and context entirely up to imagination.

One quote uses empty space almost like Silence, somewhere to escape into music when a house gets too loud to think in.