Quotes About Depth

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

That art is best which suggests most.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is when things appear rounded.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.