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249 Finishing quotes by 223 unique authors

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and… — Alexander Downer
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education… — David Graeber
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is… — Michael Cunningham
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. — Cobi Jones
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or… — Leslie Jamison
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. — James Whistler
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde
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
Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next. — Ernest Hemingway
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
Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail;… — 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
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. — Claude Monet
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet
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
When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do… — Damien Hirst
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… — Joshua Reynolds
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such… — Eugene Delacroix
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it. — Stan Smith

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