💬 A quote from Paul Valéry:
In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned; and this abandonment, of the book to the fire or to the public, whether due to weariness or to a need to deliver it for publication, is a sort of accident, comparable to the letting-go of an idea that has become so tiring or annoying that one has lost all interest in it.
This idea is often well-summarized yet misattributed to Da Vinci as such:
Art is never finished, only abandoned.