blank canvases

Noun

blank canvas (plural blank canvases or blank canvasses)

1. (also, figuratively) An unmarked or empty state, offering a limitless potential for creation, development or interpretation.
   • Near-synonyms: new canvas, clean slate, new page, new sheet, new leaf

   Synonyms:

   blank slate, empty canvas, empty page, blank page, empty sheet, blank sheet, empty leaf, blank leaf, new canvas, clean slate

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.
   • There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his...1916, Rebecca West, Henry James