#only

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#i #morally #only #pure #remain

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#folly #genius #good #good sense #only

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fit #genius #human #narrow #only

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#certainties #foot #only

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#beauty #birth #dedication #does #gift

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#authors #better #four-letter #goes #good