I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get…

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's…

— James Elkins

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?”

— Ross Wetzsteon

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about…

— William Baziotes

I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has…

— John Marin

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

— Edward Hopper

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding…

— Edward Hopper

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

— John Dyer

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

— Georges Braque

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse