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• I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

  William Baziotes

  Wall, Eye, Feet

  "Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics". Book by Clifford Ross, 1990.

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

  Ted Godwin

  Finishing, Would Be, Done

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.

  Milton Resnick

  Pain, People, Technique

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• I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.

  Norbert Bisky

  Finishing

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• The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!

  Bentley Little

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

  Demonax

  Pain, Lust, Sorrow

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• Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

  John Carroll

  Believe, Mean, Goal

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.121, Taylor & Francis

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• I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Facts, Ethical

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

  Wendy Lesser

  Errors, Echoes, Mind

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• I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

  Gore Vidal

  Firsts, Discouraging

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

  David Letterman

  New York, Moving, Cities

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• Nobody else in the world can play the way Scholes does. The passes he produces all over the field and the way he changes the game is brilliant. Every manager would like him. But luckily he is here and playing with us. Paul practices that all the time. When he has finished training he always goes out and shoots.

  Dimitar Berbatov

  Games, Play, Practice

  "Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov Says Nobody Can Play Like Paul Scholes". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 19, 2009.

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• How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Dark, Years

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• When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, War, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Winning, Years

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

  John Hench

  Artist, Ideas, Pirate

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• I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Heaven, Mind, Toronto

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• When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

  Fay Wray

  Cutting, Rooms, Sound

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• For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, Character, Example

  "Horns and Halos". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

  Roland Joffe

  Couple, Men, Elderly

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  Walter Matthau

  Book, Writing, Together

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• It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Team, London Olympics

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• Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Color, Cases

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

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• A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don't know which is better.

  John Slattery

  People, Forever, Want

  Source: collider.com

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