Jim Dine Quotes

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

'Obsession' has a bad rap.

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I obsess too much.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.