Despite epitomizing the dynamic thinking of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was reportedly an arch procrastinator who only finished a handful of works and had a reputation among his patrons and peers for being unreliable.
Little surprise then that the quote, “art is never finished, only abandoned….” has been widely attributed to him (and occasionally to Pablo Picasso.) But da Vinci is far from alone.
Many artists and other creative professionals have expressed....