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“I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.”

I Can Certain Painting Bears Heavy Finished Finishing

Book:The Coup

Source: The Coup

“Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.”

Knows Want Next What You Want Quitting Finishing

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.”

Reality Impossible Figures Extremes Finished Staring Mature Propositions Finishing Incomplete

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.”

Difficult Finishing Carried Away

Author:Claude Monet

“While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.”

Might Painting Harder Insignificant Finishing Finishing Touches

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.”

Claims Finished Arrogant Canvas Finishing

Book:Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny

Source: Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny

“I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.”

Feels Impossible Painting Finished Powerless Finishing

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.”

Want Two Done Feelings Hours Feet Couple Not Sure Sat Finishing Great Feelings

Author:Damien Hirst

“However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.”

May Whole Light Distance Details Appearance Finishing Unfinished

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”

Heart Moments Realizing Decision Painting Demand Weakness Difficulty Steel Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.”

Feelings Products Fine Finished Suggestions Finishing Expressive Great Feelings

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.”

Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.”

Thinking Finished Finishing

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.”

Ifs Should Drawing Finishing

Author:Stan Smith

“Shift often from openness to closure.”

Openness Finishing Closure

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.”

Seems Chains Links Canvas Viewers Finishing Unending

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“My pictures really finish themselves.”

Finishing

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.”

Knows Finished Finishing

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.”

Done Easy Painting Projects Finishing Hanging Around Almost Done

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.”

Trying Waiting Lifetime Finishing

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.”

States Anxiety Sincerity Unnecessary Spoil Finishing Corrections Unfinished Superfluous Carelessness

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.”

Said Done Wish Finished Clarity Finishing

Author:Richard Schmid

“The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.”

Ifs Way Kind Energy Effort Painting Exciting Get Up Cents Finishing

Author:Burton Silverman

“There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.”

People Years Book Feelings Taken Written Series Seven Remarkable Finishing Devastated Euphoria

Author:J. K. Rowling

“We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”

Dream Technology Computer Finishing Computing Shelf Life

Author:Bill Gates

“I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.”

I Can Ideas Middle Disorder Finishing Saying No Never Regret

Author:Ricky Gervais

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.”

People Moments Running Organization Fever Finishing Implementing

Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New

Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New

“I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.”

Sides Objects Bottom Bounds Finished Boundaries Boat Definite Finishing

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.”

Knows Firsts Wanted Simple Answers Painting Finished Finishing

Author:James Elkins

“I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?”

Ifs Wonder Finishing Deadline

Author:Judith Weir

“I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.”

Painting Paint Bottom Finished Finishing

Author:Neil Welliver

“How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.”

Different Artist Interesting Havens Painting Finishing

Author:Peter Doig

“Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.”

Littles Anxiety Torture Flaws Worth It Glimpse Finishing

Author:Jacob Collins

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

Ifs Feels Realizing Novel Missing Fine Circumstances Blue Train Chapters Compulsion Finishing Dickens

Book:Rules of Civility

Source: Rules of Civility

“After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.”

World War Faces Values Opportunity Causes President Interest Common Policy Iraq Torture Divided Afghanistan Historic President Bush Surveillance Finishing Optional Detainees

Author:Joe Biden

“I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.”

Thinking Feels Has Beens Matter Building Like You Mountain Tired Metaphor Climbing Finishing How You Feel Climbing Mountain

Author:Octavia Butler

“A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.”

Done Would Be Sin Crime Painting Finished Finishing

Book:The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

Source: The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

“I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.”

Finished Finishing

Author:Norbert Bisky

“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Trying Shows Journey Battle Evidence Mark Favors Destination Finishing

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.”

Knows Men Sex Sadness Painting Months Periods Posts Finishing Having Sex Old Saying Elation

Author:Tim Zuck

“After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.”

Theme Finishing Rearranging

Author:Tim Zuck

“One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.”

“My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'”

Littles I Can Book Would Be Dies Wish Sex Thank God Finishing Little Time Keyboards Time Off Good Sex Finishing A Book

Author:Nora Roberts

“The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.”

Process Term Effort Example Scene Directors Blogs Finishing Commentary Dvds Effort And Time

Author:David Cronenberg

“I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.”

Real Ends Lasts My Favorite Hopefully Accomplishment Finishing Favorites Things Last Day Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.”

Looks Delicious Finishing Finishing It

Book:What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

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