quotes about Finishing It

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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“Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.”

Source : Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.30, Lulu.com
“Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.”
“I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.”
“Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.”
“In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.”
“I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.”
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
“To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isnt there, its easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, itll come. Its definitely harder work than some people think.”

Source : "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. April 29, 2011.
“I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.”

Source : May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”
“As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come to see Latter-day Saints as devout disciples of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”