Ephemeral Quotes

153 Ephemeral quotes by 130 unique authors

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that… — Faye Dunaway
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a… — Mark Helprin
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will… — Jason Silva
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try. — Jason Silva
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
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’ — Lucy R. Lippard
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Stefan Zweig
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water. — Mooji
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it.… — Tony Kushner
But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory,… — Eldridge Cleaver
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… — Shepard Fairey
I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this… — Paul Tudor Jones
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth. — Daryl Hall
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary… — Pablo Casals
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. — Edwin Way Teale
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the… — Richard E. Grant
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… — Clive Barker
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. — Mary McCarthy
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that. — Julia Leigh
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. — Nate Silver

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130 authors contributed a total of 153 Ephemeral Quotes, led by these top contributors: