Ephemeral Quotes

“The text of a traditional ballad is often a fragile thing, a phantom which is always eluding our grasp.”

“A dancer's life is all about the next performance. The last one is gone.”

“I am an artist, and I have to have courage. Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished.”

“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

“Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?”

“The best theatre is writing on the wind.”

“Pop music is a disposable product. It's not meant to last forever.”

“Racine will pass away like coffee.”

“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”

“Fashion is about a moment. It's about a mood. It's about a person.”

“Jazz is a music of the moment. It's not a music of preservation.”