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However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
-Joshua Reynolds
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However Minutely Labored The Picture May Be

Joshua Reynolds
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. it's an immediate image. for my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it as well - she did this and then she did that; there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. and i usually throw these out, though i think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. it is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. a column and a column brings light between them. to make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. there is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. he is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. it is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. for, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
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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. back in the 1960s, i was calling for 'unfinished music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - i was taking unfinished work into the gallery. and that's how i was looking at it.
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