Obsession Quotes
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.
These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
