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How do you know when a piece of work is finished?

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Nina Katchadourian American interdisciplinary artist and educator
I don’t know the answer to that, especially with projects like Seat Assignment or Sorted Books, because both do still feel ongoing. The Sorted Books Project is my longest ongoing project to date, where I’m working in libraries or book collections with other people’s books and trying to work only with what’s there, to draw something out from the book arrangements I make.
Recorded Brandon Stosuy, The Creative Independent interview, 1 June 2017 source ↗
Brandon Sanderson Novelist
Well, art is never finished, it’s only abandoned, right? That famous quote. A project is done when I feel that I can’t make significant improvements to the story, I’m only going to start taking sideways steps. If I revise it, it doesn’t get better, it just gets different.
Recorded Margot Atwell, The Creative Independent, 8 March 2022 source ↗

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