blank canvas
Noun
Meaning
(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view.
After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.