Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.” — Kane X. Faucher Copy Share Image
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction… — John Heider Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
“Obsessional people tend to be careful, do not take undue risks, check what they are doing and set themselves high standards. The… — Dr Stefan Cembrowicz Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward.… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
“..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading… — Santigold Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My obsession with documentary coincided with this job I had where I worked for a private investigator for about a year after… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
“He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“There's nothing like a good obsession to keep a guy mesmerized.” — Ann Redisch Stampler Copy Share Image
I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession. — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Obsession with the Epics isn’t healthy. You need to watch yourself.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Ask my family about my obsession for discounts and they will tell you. — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
