The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
. . . pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.
That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.
When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.