Unfinished Masterpiece Quotes

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

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

'The Restraint of Beasts' is a painful subject. We'd shot 60% of the film when I had to stop. The material looks great, like nothing I've ever done or even seen before. It could have been really great, definitely original.

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

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

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

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

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

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