Finishing Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

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

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

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

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

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.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

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

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

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

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.

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

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

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

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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.