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.
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.
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.
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.