Quotes About Incompletion

and in December 1931 parts of New York looked as if God had gotten bored with the Creation business in the middle of the sixth day and simply walked off the job. Work

Leaving him was less like leaving even the most simple of her friends in Flaw Valleys, and more like losing unfinished a manuscript, beautiful, absorbing and difficult, which she had long wanted to read.

Dead men never pick up their trophies.

How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I've said that I wish I could correct, but this is a process that will never end. When my grandmother died she left a library full of books she never finished reading. This is how I feel now.

he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!

Is there anything more embarrassing than sailing into battle with half-finished figureheads? -Loki

The universe is unfinished, and God is looking for partners in the ongoing creation of the world.

It's a half bridge, really, as only four of its original arches remain. It ends midway across the river. Like it reached, tried to reunite with, the other side and fell short.

In each painting, I think, it's as if God were giving up on finishing the world.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Forms of modern life may differ in quite a few respects – but what unites them all is precisely their fragility, temporariness, vulnerability and inclination to constant change. To 'be modern' means to modernize – compulsively, obsessively; not so much just 'to be', let alone to keep its identity intact, but forever 'becoming', avoiding completion, staying underdefined.

It's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

A medio hacer, ni crudos ni cocidos, bipolares capaces de cabalgar el huracán.

What do we leave behind but things not done, not said, not finished? Empty clothes, empty rooms, empty spaces in the ones who knew us? Mistakes never made right and hopes rotted down to nothing?

After tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping. I am unable and in the near future will scarcely be able to complete the remaining pieces.

We all die in the middle of something.

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.

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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.