Quotes About Obsession

Art is a jealous mistress.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

Should you chance to read it a second or third time, Wuthering Heights comes at you afresh, in part because the novel seems to vanish into its own delirious origins once you've finished it, leaving no footprints, and in part because it is a literary force of nature such as you've never encountered before.

Your love interest becomes the most important thing to you. And if the love is requited, it's the biggest high in the universe, and you'd be fine never being with anyone else. But if this person doesn't want you back, well, you pretty much wish you were dead . . . or that that person dies miserable.

I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

Jangan biarkan kebencian menguasai hidupmu. Kematianku tidak perlu dibalaskan. Hiduplah sebagai vampir yang bebas, bukan sebagai makhluk putus asa gila dan terobsesi untuk membalas dendam.

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

As Jebel tried in vain to fall asleep, he became aware of a small clicking noise. He turned and looked at the woman. Her robe was raised above her knees and she was scratching at a wound on her thigh. She had worked her way through to the bone and was picking at it with her nails.

They look happy, sated, full. They pay no attention to me. Like junkies after a fix. Spaced out. In a world of their own. A world of murder, cannibalism and sweet, sweet brains.

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

I really, really like Suzana Delgado, who is the most beautiful girl in the eighth grade and probably the world. She has like 183 million Instagram followers.

When we fail to live a life outside politics, we become a slave to it. While it's certainly important to be aware of all the issues I've discussed here, it's way more important to live a well-rounded, fully-realized life that's regularly removed from all the drama. In order to do this, we must learn to distinguish between being politically engaged and politically obsessed.