Finished Quote by Erro

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they…

— Francoise Gilot

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

— Robert Henri

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

— Stan Smith

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway

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

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

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

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

— Alan Bean