Creative Closure Quotes

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.

Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.