Blow Quote by Pablo Picasso

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says,…

— Eric Drooker

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

— Stanley Hauerwas

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

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

— Rembrandt

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

— Thomas Merton

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

— Eric Drooker