Quotes About Depth

Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest.

There was earth inside them, and they dug.

He considers them to be both out of their depth and misrepresenters of the Christian faith: "they invariably come up with vulgar caricatures of religious faith that would make a first-year theology student wince.

Sometimes a whispered word, or a single image or glimpse of humanity, can be a powerful motivation for looking deeper into the world.

It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.