Unfinished Art Quotes

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

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

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

An empty canvas is full.

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole.

I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.

I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do.