“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.” WayFeelsLongI CanLanguageSoundEmotionPiecesEmotionalFlowFocusedFinishedRhythm Author:Taiye Selasi
“When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.” KindPiecesAffairFinishedLove AffairKinds Of Love Author:Rose Tremain
“Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.” BeautyPiecesPaperFinishedSand Author:William Morris Hunt
“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.” LongThreeCan DoHoursPiecesRadioFinishedInterviews Author:Daniel Alarcon
“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.” FilmFormActorsBornRoomsPiecesPaperThirdsCamerasFinalsFinishedEditing Author:Robert Bresson
“I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.” NeedsDoeWorkPiecesFinishedConcentration Author:Maya Angelou
“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.” WritingLittlesTogetherSongSoundHalfForeverPiecesPersonalityDown AndFinishedMoodSatGoing AwayTake MeBullshitEditingSwitching Author:Matt Berninger
“Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.” PeopleArtBookRealizingStepsSawsPiecesPaintingPopsFinishedVarietyPhasesPuzzlesPencilsDummy Author:Tomie dePaola
“Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.” KnowsPiecesStonesFinishedNot SureSculptureChipping Away Author:Robert Altman
“I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.” ArtBookRealityReadingPiecesExcitingHungerFinishedVolumeSublimeOverwhelmedLitUrgentOutrageousVisionariesEcstaticIntoxicatedArt Making Author:Jonathan Lethem
“The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.” AudiencePiecesProgramFinishedPerformersEncores Author:Hilary Hahn
“It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.” WayDifferentBitsPiecesDirectorsDirectFinishedSessionCollaborators Author:Larry Fessenden