Finishing Quotes - Page 4

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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

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

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

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

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.

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.

There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

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.

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

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

My pictures really finish themselves.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

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

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

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.