Obsession Quotes - Page 36

• Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

  Mary Heilmann

  Simple, Ideas, Meditation

  "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

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• I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Curse, Compulsion, I Can

  "Juliana Hatfield on life after the spotlight fades". www.today.com. September 16, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lonely, Growing Up, Found Someone

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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