Pablo Picasso Quotes

Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

For many years, tennis was the most important thing in my life. That was great. Nothing wrong with that.

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing books. And you tend to only get these things if you want them, and want them to the exclusion of everything else.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.