Quotes About Permanence

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." —William Faulkner

Curiosity is not a thirst that can be slaked: it is a permanent condition. Every answer points to more and sometimes more profound questions. And knowledge, by itself, achieves nothing: we want more, we want something elusive, called understanding, or wisdom. We want both the big picture, and our place in it.

It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.' 'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. Only now could lay any claim to forever...

You may even find that there's no reason to ever stop doing it, even once you've graduated to heading your own projects. Let it become natural and permanent; let others apply it to you while you're too busy applying it to those above you. Because if you pick up this mantle once, you'll see what most people's egos prevent them from appreciating: The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.

Remember that email is skywriting.

Religion may be the most ephemeral eddy of them all. It persists with a name and a building where the faithful congregate over generations. The faith the first generation embraced might be unrecognizable to the last, even though the building and the name have remained unchanged.

John suppressed his desire to snap back and shock. It wasn't even that. His desire, almost physical, to speak of what he and Frank had done, we doing. He worried that his experiences would not be fully legible until then, even to himself. He wished to make them permanent, whole, to give them a place in the world. Every day, memories tugged fiercely for release. Words, details, salivated on his tongue.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.