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My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

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.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Success in life is about obsession

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

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.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

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.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.