Basketball Quote by Don Meyer

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

— Rembrandt

A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it.…

— John Slattery

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

— Emile Gruppe

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand…

— Tamara de Lempicka

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

— Pierre Bonnard

Art has no end but its own perfection.

— Plato

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been…

— Peter Doig

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

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid…

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was…

— Walter Mosley