“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

Eugene Delacroix quotes (Greatest French Romantic painter, 1798-1863)

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

Henry Moore (English Sculptor, 1898-1986)

“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.”

Barbra Streisand (American Producer, Singer and Actress, b.1942)

“Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.” Napoleon Hill

“Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.” Paul Carvel
(Belgian Writer and Editor, b.1964)

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.” Albert Einstein

“Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it.” Curtis Judalet

“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”

Herbert Spencer(British social Philosopher, 1820-1903)

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen (Dutch Christian writer 1932 - 1996)