No great work or endeavour is ever finished

• I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’ Yoko Ono
• No great work of art is ever finished. Michelangelo
• A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while. Neil Young
• A magic effect is never completely finished. Jay Sankey
• Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end. Sarah Lewis
• Continual improvement is an unending journey. Lloyd Dobyns
• I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’ Yoko Ono
• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished – a word that for them has no sense – but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless. Paul Valery
• It is a long road from conception to completion. Moliere
• It’s something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing…and adding to. Walt Disney
• There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.  Frederick Lenz

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No great work of art is ever complete

• A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life. Lucian Freud
• Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event. Robert Genn
• No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. Paul Valery
• No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. Uta Hagen
• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. Robert Breault
• 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. Peter Doig
• Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change. Tom Wesselmann
• 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. Yoko Ono
• I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing. Jørn Utzon
• I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Claude Monet
• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete! Robert Browning
• The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to ‘see’ the future links. Philip Guston
• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. Nellie Melba
• 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. Pablo Picasso
• Works of art are never finished, just stopped. Peter Greenaway

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No great movie or play is ever finished

• A movie is never finished, only abandoned. – George Lucas
• A play is never finished. You’ll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. Tony Kushner
• Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It’s abandoned or it’s ripped out of your hands, and it’s thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It’s a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, That’s exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I’m going to put it out there. George Lucas

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No great piece of journalism is ever finished

• Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. Anthony Shadid

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No great garden is ever finished

• A garden is never finished. – Shunryu Suzuki

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No great book is ever finished

• A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. Oscar Wilde
• Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. M. Forster

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No great library is ever finished

• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. Catherynne M. Valente

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The attainment of a great dream is never finished

• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. Victor Hugo
• Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. Anatoly Karpov
• The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished. Walt Disney

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The quest for knowledge and experience is never finished

• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker
• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete Henry James
• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski
• One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never. Alexandre Dumas
• The most developed science remains a continual becoming. Jean Piaget
• You can never represent yourself totally …. to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which … will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. Douglas Hofstadter

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The search for truth is never finished

• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles. Noam Chomsky

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True love is never finished

• Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. Sara Zarr
• Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed. Gaston Bachelard
• Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. Blaise Pascal
• Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Rajneesh
• Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun. Rajneesh

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A great journey is never finished

• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Rosita Forbes

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Life itself is never finished

• Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others. George Bernard Shaw
• Life is a work in progress. Rachel Caine
• My life is just a never-ending work in progress. Richard Simmons
• Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life… Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you’ve been born to do, now. David Deida
• There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one. Chuck Norris
• There is no paradise, no place of true completion. Jane Hirshfield
• You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. Denis Waitley
• Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made…Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It’s the highest art. Sarah Ban Breathnach

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The spiritual path is never finished

• I am discovering that in trying to find God’s will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead. Keith Miller
• If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp. Karen Armstrong

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We ourselves are never finished

• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. Martin Luther
• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient… Daniel Gilbert
• Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future. O. Wilson
• I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding. Ani DiFranco
• The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion. Terry Bradshaw
• I’m always a work in progress. Billie Joe
• We’re all works of art in progress. Carmen Dell’Orefice
• What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. Thomas Crum

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Nature itself is never finished

• How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Christopher Fry
• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. Robert Frost
• Nature is never finished. Robert Smithson
• Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work. Maria Montessori

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Creating and creativity is an un unending exercise

• All creativity is a work in progress. Dean Cavanagh
• Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty. Joseph Brodsky
• There is no person like God, but there is tremendous energy – exploding, unending, expanding. This expanding, unending, exploding energy, this creativity, is divine. Rajneesh

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All great things are in a state of constant becoming

• An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright. Bob Dylan
• I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw
• Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. Randev Hundal
• We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming. Bob Dylan
• A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. Albert Camus

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A work in progress has its own energy field and inspiration…

• A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. Steven Pressfield
• Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. Max Frisch
• I have been running so sweaty my whole life, urgent for a finish line and I have been missing the rapture this whole time, of being forever incomplete Alanis Morissette

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…while completion can be a kind of death

• Nothing that is complete breathes. Antonio Porchia
• Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death! Frank Herbert
• Arrival is the death of inspiration. Ernst Haas
• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. Will Durant
• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. John Ruskin
• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw
• I’m forever BECOMING. I’ll never be complete, because completion is death. Stacy Barthe
• Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal
• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Lao Tzu
• The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. Samuel Johnson

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In all great endeavours it is better to travel than to arrive

• I love to travel, but hate to arrive. Albert Einstein
• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson
• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment. Rosamunde Pilcher
• It is better to travel than to arrive. Lesley Howarth
• It is better to travel well than arrive. Gautama Buddha
• It is better to travel with hope in one’s heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today’s failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success. Jacqueline Kelly
• So much better to travel than to arrive. Margaret Atwood
• Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive. Robert M. Pirsig
• To arrive is to be in prison. Henri Matisse
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson
• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. James Jeans
• Too travel is sometimes better to arrive! Ryan Lochte
• …to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. James Jeans