“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

“Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.”

“Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.”

“A painting that is well composed is half finished.”

“... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...”

“Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.”