Eva Hesse Quotes

Art is eternal, but life is short.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

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

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

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

Life is like this: things come and go.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

All things are subject to decay and change.

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.