Quotes About Finishing A Painting

#1. Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them ... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Robert Breault

#3. I rarely feel that any of my paintings ever make it to a finishing point. There's always something else I want to add to them, like a few more brushstrokes or another color. But there comes a point with every painting when I just have to stop and accept it for what it is.

Colleen Hoover

#4. While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose ...

Claude Monet

#5. I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

Lenny Abrahamson

#6. I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

Laura Mennell

#7. Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.

Tim Zuck

#8. When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Marc Chagall

#9. Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Pliny The Younger

#10. I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

Claude Monet

#11. Today is the best day to change the rest of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#12. A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Ted Godwin

#13. We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Stephen Covey

#14. I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Neil Welliver

#15. 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

#16. I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Drew Barrymore

#17. Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Elizabeth Neel

#18. In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Jonah Lehrer

#19. One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings ... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar ... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

Christopher Willard

#20. I'll keep you safe, because the moment I saw you I knew you'd be mine.

Jenika Snow

#21. Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It

Joe Queenan