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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Obsessions turn people off.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.