Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Beauty is only temporary but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3 000 years.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.