Best painting & finishing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.”

Left Painting Obvious Finishing Incomplete Completion

“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

“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'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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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 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

“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

“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

“One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.”

Has Beens Whole Stage Painting Method Paint Strokes Finishing Unfinished Cezanne Completed Work

Author:Christopher Willard

“Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.”

Artist Left Painting Finished Visible Finishing Unfinished

Author:Pliny the Younger

“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Done Easy Painting Skills Starting Painter Finishing Finishing It

Author:Elizabeth Neel

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