Obsession Quotes

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

I’m just obsessed with music I guess.

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we’ll be chained to the realm of average.

She’s like a stiff drink I can’t get enough of, the first real obsession I can’t help but love.