“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.”
“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
“I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on a piece of paper, the algebraic kind that you hope will help you think more clearly. When I finished doing that, I was more confused than ever. Algebra was never my strong subject.”
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?”