A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

— Oscar Wilde

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.”

— Dan Simmons

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

No great work of art is ever finished.

— Michelangelo

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it…

— Alistair Cooke

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long…

— Jonathan Hickman

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

— Robert Engman

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

— Hans Hofmann

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp