Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
It is often the easiest move that completes the game.
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
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.
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
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.
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
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.
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.
Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
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.
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
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