Possessing Quotations

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

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

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

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

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