I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. Jean-Michel Basquiat
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. Howard Hodgkin
I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish. Christopher Walken
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. Ann Patchett
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. Carl Sagan
Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?' Fred Astaire