Zitat des Tages über Flüchtig / Ephemeral:
I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
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.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of citizenship give way to marketized individualism and consumerism.
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.
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.