Top 88 Ephemeral Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ephemeral Quotes from famous people such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ian K. Smith, Mary Douglas, Moon Unit Zappa, Seth Shostak, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
I don’t make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Ian K. Smith
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
Mary Douglas
I made enough money to buy a house. That’s crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Moon Unit Zappa
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.
Seth Shostak
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
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.
Clive Barker
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
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
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Perhaps summer’s ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes – extravagant treats that aren’t as calorie-laden when we’re wearing flip flops.
Sarah MacLean
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
Scott Rudin
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
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
Mary Douglas
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
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
Maggie Smith
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.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.
Marcel Marceau
The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.
Steve Aoki
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.
Clive Barker
I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody’s, and possibly more so.
Joss Whedon
People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver
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.
Mary Gaitskill
In times of stress, it is easy to look to one’s weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London’s cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.
Munira Mirza
I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of me.
Jonathan Ames
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
John Malkovich
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
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I’m sure of this; I’ve always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
Yo-Yo Ma
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
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
An artist’s creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot ‘Samaria’ and ‘3-Iron’.
Kim Ki-duk
In our ephemeral information age, people think we've le

In our ephemeral information age, people think we’ve left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they’re all still going on – we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.
Edward Burtynsky
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
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
Maggie Smith
Generally speaking, the people who come to work at Snapchat believe in personal growth. It’s part of why Snapchat’s stories are ephemeral, because you will be a different person tomorrow.
Evan Spiegel
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.
Brian Eno
This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There’s a ‘flavour of the month’ aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.
Julian Barratt
Yet I’ve discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
Judith Light
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock
I’m not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that’s frequently ephemeral.
Casey Neistat
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it’s ephemeral.
Lapo Elkann
There are many things to like about ‘Mr. Robot,’ the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.
Michelle Dean
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.
Lois Greenfield
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
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of me.
Jonathan Ames
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Eva Green
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.
Greg Grandin
I don’t seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something’s different, something’s unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
Michael Palin
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.
Brian Eno
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I’m sure of this; I’ve always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
Yo-Yo Ma