“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Variant: Art is never finished, only abandoned.
“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
Quoted in H. Allen Smith's The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler (1977); as cited by Paul Dickson (1990), The New Official Rules, p. 74
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