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title: "2 Finishing Quotes By Tim Zuck"
description: "2 Finishing quotes by Tim Zuck. Plus more from Tim Zuck and more Finishing sayings from other authors."
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> [Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-zuck/making-a-painting-is-like-having-sex-for-a-month-or-something-then-i/)

Tim Zuck

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/tim-zuck-76680_artist_making-a-painting-is-like-having-sex-for_398935.jpg)

> [After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-zuck/after-finishing-the-work-i-start-rearranging-the-parts-again-and/)

Tim Zuck

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f9/tim-zuck-76680_finishing_after-finishing-the-work-i-start-rearran_2298260.jpg)

## Other authors on Finishing

## More by Tim Zuck

> [Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-zuck/making-a-painting-is-like-having-sex-for-a-month-or-something-then-i/)

Tim Zuck

> [You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an anti-intellectual stance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-zuck/you-need-to-know-a-lot-about-what-s-going-on-but-when-it-comes-to/)

Tim Zuck

> [After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-zuck/after-finishing-the-work-i-start-rearranging-the-parts-again-and/)

Tim Zuck

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