Quotes by Finishing To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place. James Elkins finishing simple firsts A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. James Whistler finishing used mean There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was! Jamie Campbell Bower finishing guy thinking Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Jason Calacanis finishing starting easy There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut. Janet Evanovich finishing tomorrow firsts I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school. Jhene Aiko thirteen finishing school Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. Joan Z. Borysenko misguided finishing past One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. Johannes Brahms finishing life-and-love pieces The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. John Berger finishing impossible reality She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch. John Eldredge finishing finals lasts It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action. John Francis Daley finishing action world I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat. John Marin boat finishing sides The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish. John C. Maxwell finishing discipline decision 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 finishing painting bears The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. Joseph Joubert finishing color order During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade. Josh Young finishing strange scene However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown. Joshua Reynolds finishing distance light I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended? Judith Weir finishing deadline wonder The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all. Julia Cameron finishing block art The finishing stroke of all sorrow. Juvenal strokes finishing sorrow «12345678»