Top Finishing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Finishing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Daniel Pennac
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
- Daniel Pennac
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Image of Ravi Zacharias
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing
- Ravi Zacharias
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Image of Neil Welliver
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
- Neil Welliver
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Image of Pliny the Younger
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
- Pliny the Younger
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Image of Jason Calacanis
Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.
- Jason Calacanis
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Image of Andy Gray
And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.
- Andy Gray
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Image of David Wright
Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.
- David Wright
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Image of Eugene Delacroix
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
- Eugene Delacroix
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Image of Judith Weir
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
- Judith Weir
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Image of Howard Hodgkin
My pictures really finish themselves.
- Howard Hodgkin
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Image of Peter Gabriel
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
- Peter Gabriel
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Image of Ted Godwin
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
- Ted Godwin
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Image of John Francis Daley
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
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Image of Tim Zuck
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
- Tim Zuck
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Image of Cary Fukunaga
There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.
- Cary Fukunaga
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Image of Norbert Bisky
I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
- Norbert Bisky
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Image of Christopher Willard
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
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Image of Josh Young
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
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Image of Claude Monet
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
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Image of Claude Monet
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
- Claude Monet
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Image of Claude Monet
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
- Claude Monet
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Image of Edward Steichen
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.
- Edward Steichen
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Image of Daniel H. Pink
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
- Daniel H. Pink
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Image of Claude Monet
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
- Claude Monet
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Image of John Updike
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
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Image of Oscar Wilde
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Robert Breault
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
- Robert Breault
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Image of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Shift often from openness to closure.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Image of John Eldredge
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
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Image of Janet Evanovich
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
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Image of Philip Guston
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
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Image of Thomas Kinkade
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
- Thomas Kinkade
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Image of Clive Barker
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
- Clive Barker
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