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.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.