Cure for an obsession: get another one.
It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.
Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.
We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.
I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.
It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.