Quotes About Depth

It was not the cold that made you want to rush out as soon as you'd jumped in; it was the unmeasured depth - our fear of what was on the bottom, and how far below us the bottom was.

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity. Probing vertically, going deeper and deeper into something, creates new information. Sometimes what one finds will shine brilliantly enough to illuminate the whole world.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

You need emotional content.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE