Quotes About Depth

Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.

As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.

The cities of the interior are vast and do not lie on any map.

Some folk say I'm a fool, but there's more to this world than meets the eye.' I waited quietly. 'There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.

everyone who is interesting has a past

Love's a grand solace, isn't it, my friend? Deep and dark as sleep.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.