Quotes About Ephemeral

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too.

Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized'

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show ' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.