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Possessing Quotes

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, p.6, CLC Publications

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.125, Delacorte Press

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.45, Mango Media Inc.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Reginald Lansing Cook, Robert Frost (1974). “Robert Frost, a living voice”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr