“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”

“Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.”

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”

“We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.”

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.”

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”

“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

“There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.”