Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

Every artiste has a process.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.