Quotes About Depth

to no one did he bare his soul so utterly

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

abyss stares

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

On ne pouvait apercevoir leurs yeux qui semblaient alors n'être plus que deux trous noirs et sans fin ouverts sur l'envers du monde.

Para intentar comprender a la gente, hay que excavar hasta las raíces. No basta con darle un empujón al tiempo con el hombro para darle mejor aspecto; hay que arañar entre sus fisuras y obligarlo a dar el máximo. Ensuciarse las manos. A mí no me da asco.

C'est un peu comme les êtres au fond, ceux justement que l'on croise durant des années, mais qu'on ne connaît jamais, et qui se révèlent un jour, sous nos yeux, comme jamais on ne les aurait crus capables d'être.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below or hoist you above the surface of your life, enabling you to go deeper or higher than you would otherwise go. What excites me about his metaphor is that is makes writing much more than a lifesaving venture.

Words have little value in the kingdom of essential things. They're just decorations on the feelings too deep for us to put into syllables.

C'è una voracità, che hai con le persone che ti vivono intorno, che mi spaventa. E questo tanto più perché io so quanto, dentro di te, ci sia solamente un fondo di sincera bontà

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

I use depth in my visuals even in 2-D, and found that 3-D is actually liberating.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I can be serious, but there's got to be a lighter side.