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The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. — James Whistler
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed,… — Annie Dillard
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,… — John Updike
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. — John Updike
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result… — Leonardo da Vinci
The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and… — Ronald Reagan
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in… — Jean Cocteau
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… — Henri Matisse
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've… — Paul Gauguin
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… — John Berger
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. — Claude Monet
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron de Montesquieu
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character… — Joshua Reynolds
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it. — Robert Henri
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished. — Andrew Wyeth
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself,… — Joshua Reynolds
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in… — Virgil Thomson
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. — William Morris Hunt
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love? — Jackson Pollock

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