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 and Souvenirs by Jaime Sabartés (1946); Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views (1972), Page 38
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