Artist Quote by Georg Baselitz

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

— Bernard Malamud

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some…

— Bernard Malamud

“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?”

— Ross Wetzsteon

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's…

— James Elkins

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

— Georges Braque

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

— Rembrandt

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about…

— William Baziotes

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

— Howard Hodgkin

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of…

— Annie Dillard