Best Finishing Lines

249 Finishing quotes by 223 unique authors

Shift often from openness to closure. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of… — Philip Guston
My pictures really finish themselves. — Howard Hodgkin
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished. — Daniel H. Pink
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done. — Thomas Kinkade
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is… — Walter J. Phillips
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes… — Arshile Gorky
The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have… — Richard Schmid
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per… — Burton Silverman
There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I)… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better… — Ricky Gervais
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. — Bill Gates
You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan… — Robert Griffin III
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and… — Bill Cosby
Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. — David Duchovny
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. — Dale Earnhardt
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. — William Feather
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace… — Oscar Hammerstein II
To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything. — Marc Jacobs
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35… — Meir Kahane
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive… — Emeril Lagasse
I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. — Padma Lakshmi

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