Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian painter, engineer and anatomist, author of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He left some seven thousand notebook pages written in mirror script, filled with machine designs, anatomical studies and observations on light and water. Very few of his projects were finished in his lifetime.
About this theme: Creativity
Creativity is usually discussed as inspiration arriving from outside, and least often as what it mostly is: work done on days when it does not want to be done. The tension is old. Antiquity had muses, Romanticism had genius, and the twentieth century had the working habits of writers who rose at five because otherwise nothing happened at all.
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- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.— Rumi
- Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.— Benjamin Franklin
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
- You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.— Friedrich Nietzsche