The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its MESSAGE is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't POSSESS art, it possesses you. It's LIKE FALLING in love.

ADMIRATION for a quality or an ART can be so STRONG that it deters US from striving to possess it.

Some people can SIT and enjoy the view... some people like to TAKE photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other WAY. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it HOME in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas COME from.

AIRPLANES don't just DISAPPEAR - certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking, and filmless cameras which operate ALMOST indefinitely and possess HUGE storage capacities.

I POSSESS a STRONG SENSE of REASON.

We POSSESS only the HAPPINESS we are ABLE to UNDERSTAND.

USE what talents you possess; the WOODS would be very silent if no BIRDS sang there except those that sang best.

A COMPANION LOVES some agreeable qualities which a man MAY POSSESS, but a friend loves the man himself.

We, who are the LIVING, POSSESS the PAST. TOMORROW is for our MARTYRS.

WHENEVER a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an EDUCATION which his PARENTS cannot AFFORD, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I do not GATHER THINGS, I prefer to RENT them rather than to POSSESS them.

I do believe that a poet WOULD possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to TAP into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a CERTAIN PHRASE, even a single word, against a certain chord.

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather POSSESS a freehold, though but a COTTAGE, than live in a palace belonging to ANOTHER.

The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an ARMED conflict. Other nations also POSSESS this technology. MANY more nations are SEEKING it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.

History does nothing; it does not POSSESS immense riches, it does not fight BATTLES. It is MEN, REAL, living, who do all this.