When I look at a blank sheet of paper I see nothing. Nothing has been written or drawn on that piece of paper. All there is a blank canvas. This blank canvas, though, means that there is room for anything and essentially everything. That one piece of blank paper is not so much nothing but an opportunity for everything.
To me, this question is similar to the age-old question, "Do you seen the glass half-empty of half-full?" It's easy to see the blank sheet of paper as a whole lot of nothing. But to me, this blank sheet is blank because it has a purpose to supply someone with the chance to create something amazing.
Imagine a stage. If no one or nothing is on it, someone can look at it and say that all it is is a empty platform. But someone else can look at it and see a future, an opportunity to perform on it and dazzle an audience with his or her chosen art.
The idea of a blank sheet of paper is similar. Whether it's with art or words, the blank paper is not nothing, it's potentially everything.
