"My pictures really finish themselves."

-- Howard Hodgkin

#Finishing Quotes

“It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.”
“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”
“When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.”

Source : Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books
“Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.”
“I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case”

Source : Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.199, New Directions Publishing
“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press
“It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.”

Source : "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.
“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

Source : Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.602, Harvard University Press

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