Ends Quote by James Whistler

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

— Henry Hazlitt

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Means are ends in the making

— Mahatma Gandhi

the ends justifies the means

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With…

— Pablo Picasso

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

— Brande Roderick

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The end is built into the beginning.

— Charlie Kaufman

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their…

— Joseph Conrad

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

— Roland Barthes

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance,…

— Joshua Reynolds