Quotes by Finishing It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE! Nikolai Gogol finishing let-it-go eye I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead. Norbert Bisky finished finishing I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff. Patricia Piccinini exhibitions finishing often-is I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level. Paul Banks finishing house school Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. Oscar Wilde royal artistic finishing Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool. Paul Gauguin finishing details firsts Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. Peter Gabriel finishing deadline way I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. Peter Weller renaissance finishing italian Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film. Phil Collins finishing albums film The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links. Philip Guston canvas finishing links Marketing is a race without a finishing line Philip Kotler finishing marketing race I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. Pierre-Auguste Renoir finished finishing thinking Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work. Pliny the Younger finishing too-much Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. Pliny the Younger finishing painting artist Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. Quintilian finishing-touches finishing virtue Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing Ravi Zacharias lifelong finishing wells Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon finishing politics complaining Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school. Richard Peck finishing-school finishing school The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better. Richard Schmid finishing done wish I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder. Ricky Gervais saying-no finishing ideas «12345678»