Stephen Sondheim Quotes

A canvas is never empty.

An empty canvas is full.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

My true self contains every possibility.