Quotes About Depth

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

What we lack is intensity of life.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?