Finished Quotes - Page 17

• It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

  Robert Henri

  Ideas, Masters, Persons

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Irritating

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• From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Character, Ideas, Drawing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1824). “The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author”, p.217

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• I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Memories, Character, Practice

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1824). “The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author”, p.79

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• A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Feelings, Finishing, Suggestions

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• I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Years, Long

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• I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Finishing

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• The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Ideas

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• Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

  William Morris Hunt

  Beauty, Pieces, Paper

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• In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

  Jackson Pollock

  Making Love, Pollock, Response

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• Talking about an X-Men Kissing scene I had to lay down there and think of England as one by one they bring out the girls. It was a very tough morning... After each girl had finished, the crew would hold up scorecards.

  Hugh Jackman

  Girl, Morning, Kissing

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• Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Finishing, Knows

  "What kind of genius are you?" by Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Holiday, Relaxation, Celebrate

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• I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Book, Years

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

  Samuel Prout

  Simplicity, Curiosity, Mind

  Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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• Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.

  Tony Stewart

  June, Tunnels, Careers

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• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Life, Change, Mistake

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

  Joan D. Chittister

  World, Aging, This World

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• If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.

  Lawren Harris

  Artist, Views, Sky

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• 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.

  Richard Schmid

  Wish, Finishing, Done

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• It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

  E. J. Hughes

  Time, Doors, Sketching

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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• It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

  Walt Disney

  Developing, Disneyland, I Can

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• Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" magazine, July 2005.

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• Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Long, Hatred

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