Ephemeral Quotes

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
Brian Eno

Music, Time, Once

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
John Malkovich

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Denis Diderot

Society, Patriotism, Threat

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Everything, Trying

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
Twyla Tharp

Dance, Activities, Painters

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Maggie Smith

Theatre, Gone, Ghost

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver

Success, Appreciate

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. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
Tony Kushner

Done, Same, Film

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
Emilio Estevez

Faith, Family, Film

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
John Williams

Done, Memories, Ourselves

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.
Stefan Zweig

Work, Time, Power

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Eva Green

Success, Others, Difficult

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
Mary Douglas

Marriage, Since, Jobs

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock

Substance, Enduring

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
Judith Light

Hair, Function, Discovered

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Moon Unit Zappa

Money, Crazy, Made

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 Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
Richard E. Grant

Fashion, Film, Since

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

Important, Hard, Put

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King

True, Memories, Nostalgia

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
Charles Durning

Night, Acting, Off

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing, Matter, While

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