Willem de Kooning Quotes

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

"No" is just a moment in time.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Ephemeral should be the default.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

All things are only transitory.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

No blessing lasts forever.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Not in my lifetime.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.

I think everything is temporary.

The fame game's fun, but it's not forever.