Obsession Quotes - Page 35

• 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

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Frustration, Doe

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• We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

  Mark Boyle

  Destruction, Planets, Our Planet

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• duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

  Colleen McCullough

  Names, Duty

  Colleen McCullough (1999). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

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• Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Talking, People, Tennis

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

  Marya Mannes

  New York, Men, Voice

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• Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

  Sophie Calle

  Steps, Objects, Corners

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women have this obsession with shoes.

  Alexandra Paul

  Shoes

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• People might look at you as super-weird, but if that's your obsession, go for it. I do like a lot of mainstream stuff, and sometimes I also like different stuff. I tend to always root for the underdog.

  Kristen Bell

  Roots, People, Underdog

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Machines

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• The form is always the measure of the obsession.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Form

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• I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.

  Dave Barry

  Emotional, Maturity, Shoes

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• I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

  Billy Corgan

  College, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Europe, America

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.175, Bantam

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• Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.

  Jean Lorrain

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, Perfect, Kind

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• Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

  Laura Mulvey

  Men, Order, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

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• As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

  Clara Shih

  Dream, Reality, Entrepreneur

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• Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Generations, Ostracism

  Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

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

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Curiosity, Unbearable, Hunger

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.53, Essential Library

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• I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

  Johnny Depp

  White, People, Childhood

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Contactmusic Interview, www.contactmusic.com. January 2009.

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• Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Dream, Winning, Two

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• I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

  Angel Haze

  Desire, Goes On, Miserable

  "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

  Georges Perec

  Book, Library, Needs

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Dust

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