To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow: the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture.
Source:'Picasso: portraits et souvenirs' by Jaime Sabartés (Paris, Louis Carré and Maximilien Vox, 1946) page 146
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