Obsession Quotes

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. (Arianna Huffington)
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. View quote
Norman Mailer
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. View quote
Elie Wiesel
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. View quote
Claude Monet
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. View quote
Albert Einstein
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. (Alberto Giacometti)
If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain. View quote
Lima Barreto
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession. View quote
John Cale
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. View quote
Renzo Piano
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive. View quote
Pete Townshend
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies. View quote
Illeana Douglas
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. View quote
Laurence Housman
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. View quote
Pamela Stephenson
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera. (Sela Ward)
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. View quote
Stanley Crouch
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. View quote
Yahoo Serious
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit. View quote
Christoffer Boe