In graphics, sculptures and especially paintings made over the course of more than 60 years, his work has doggedly torn apart cherished artistic assumptions while managing at the same time to convey profound, often tender regard for them.
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis says "Boyhood" is a "tender, profound film".
It's funny – it has the mechanics of a farce – but the comic surface sometimes parts to allow a glimpse of things that are more tender and profound.
It is my favourite Bowie album; it's in my personal top 10 albums of all time, and it holds a profound connection to a tender yet turbulent time in the life of a hopeful and determined young musician that was me in the spring of 1975.
Ceravolo's verse is at once classical and fresh, tender and profound, succinct and expansive, tantalizingly parseable yet divinely ineffable.
What he does right in his books is to balance pungent and frequently regrettable comedy, of the sort that particularly appeals to younger male readers, with profound, genuine heart - tenderer feelings, deeper unspoken loves than usually appear in Dahl's more dazzlingly imaginative, savage universe.
And, at the movie's very end (not a spoiler), Lee grants Flik an exquisitely tender and cosmically profound resolution, a quasi-metaphysical insight into how to make images of the spirit.
If you are grieving a profound loss, be patient and tender with yourself: If you are grieving over the holidays, it may be that taking advantage of the time and emotional space to be with your grief without a pep squad of well-intentioned people trying to make you feel better could be just what you need.
His manner is as instantly recognizable as it is fascinating, as tender as it is profound: I consider him one of the greatest living classical musicians.
All of Kozol's books are equal-parts profound, infuriating and inspirational, but the tender and beautifully written, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, reminds us why we should care about public education.
