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How do you tell when a piece of work is done?

67 answers answered between 1985 and 2026 one of 4 from The Creative Independent

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The Creative Independent, to working artists, its interview series

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 65 Politics and public life 1 Technology 1
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 2 In their forties 2 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 6 Seventy and beyond 3
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.
Recorded David Sheff, Playboy Interview, February 1985 source ↗
David Ostrowski Abstract painter
A piece is finished when I don’t have anything more to say. My works are suggestions and I tend to create series of works to avoid routine. Of course I test every painting for its legitimacy. Worst case the canvas gets torn, painted or pasted over.
Recorded Julian Brimmers, The Creative Independent, 15 March 2018 source ↗

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