Blank Canvas Ponderer Gifts

An act of amazing restraint.

The Art Student.

"I think that's one of his early 'blank canvases'. I think there are some bigger ones in the next room."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Judging by the number of 'Polar Bear in snowstorm' paintings the class seems apprehensive using color."

'He knows everything about art. But he doesn't know what he likes.'

Pavement Artist

"It makes me happy that you took time to read the newspaper today."

'I'm glad you like it, but I haven't started it yet.'

His new 'Absence of Anything' reminds me strangely of his earlier blank 'Nothing to Say' canvasses."

"I appreciate you have a real passion for music Mr Hibberd. . . but I can see you're going to struggle with the piano."

"Big deal! My digital picture frame can hold a thousand pictures!"

Tracey Emin's Bed

I'm color blind, please help.

"Notice how the artist uses light to draw in the viewer."

"It's almost as if you can get lost in it, Timmy. Timmy?"

"He had help. There were architecture specialists, costume specialists, angel specialists..."

Picasso's learning years.

Six months later they would be sharing the Nobel Prize, but for now all they could do was stare in amazement at what they had discovered...two incredibly well preserved specimens from the styrofoam age.'

Man reading the title of an all white painting at an art gallery.

"Too busy."

Fin (The end).

Blank canvas on easel is sculptor's model.

'I love you and your father loves you. Now go paint a masterpiece.'

Gallery of modern art

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

"Well, you've fianlly done it! No more rainforest left!"

"I wasn't getting any work done at home, so I thought I'd try somewhere hot, bright and uncomfortable."

Yellow Pencil

Paul Gaugin

'Oh, no - that's just the prototype.'

'All these heads are kind of gross aren't they? What if we collected pottery or something?'

Artists paints sheep jumping over a fence to get sleepy.