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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

— Pablo Picasso

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

— Yoko Ono

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

— Iris Murdoch

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

— Ed Wood

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

— Richard King

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

— Stanley Hauerwas

✗Opposing Perspectives

What is uttered is finished and done with.

— Thomas Mann

I start a picture and I finish it.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

— John Berger