Completion Quote by Robert Henri

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

— Alexander Theroux

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

— Joseph Joubert

“People who do great work have a different set of criteria for declaring a job complete: whereas the typical definition of complete is “the…

— David Sturt

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

— Henry David Thoreau

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

— Robert Breault

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

— Benjamin Watson

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

— William Walker Atkinson

For me, working on original material is very important.

— Jack Reynor