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• A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Taste, Painter

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Wine, Reality

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  Lance Burton

  Teacher, Magic, Louisville

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• That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Future, Thinking, Issues

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• Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

  Robert Higgs

  Exercise, Done, Modern

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• But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, Drug, What If

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Fun, Race

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Tattoo, Wrestling

  "Extreme Championship Wrestling", July 4, 2006.

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• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Journey

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• There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

  Alex Webb

  Light, Creative, Culture

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

  Sandy Skoglund

  Elements, Process, Repetition

  Sandy Skoglund, Smith College. Museum of Art (1998). “Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

  Boy George

  Drug, Culture, Clubs

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• It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, World, Want

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Leaving, Earth, Scar

  Sophie Ristelhueber, Cheryl A. Brutvan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001). “Details of the world”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Exaltation, Chance

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• When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.

  Grace Phipps

  Drama, School, Angel

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• I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Thinking, Problem, Annoying

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• I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Boys, Thinking, Technique

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

  Irving Penn

  Today, Victim, Printmaking

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• No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun other than having a sexualized relationship. It’s not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever, that doesn’t mean that you’ve had some kind of failed life.

  John Green

  Fun, Mean, Romantic Love

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• 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.

  Justina Chen

  Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Art, Plastic

  André Bazin (2004). “What Is Cinema?”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Waiting, Stories

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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