But when the work was finished the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work to love its beauty and to wonder at its vastness.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says You're finished.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art is never finished only abandoned.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

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

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.