Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

German Composer

Natalie Prass

When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.

American Musician

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

French Lawyer

Jamie Wyeth

To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

American Artist

Jessica Hecht

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

American Actress

Adelaide Clemens

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Australian Actress

Curt Smith

Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.

English Musician

Jenna Dewan

I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.

James McBride

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

American Writer

Genesis P-Orridge

Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.

Use ethereal to describe something that seems too perfect for this world, giving a surreal feeling.

Surreal Impression

Ethereal often suggests a form of fragility or delicacy that seems nearly intangible.

Fragile Nature

Frequently used in fantasy or fiction to describe unearthly characters or settings.

Fantasy Context

This meteorological sense is outdated and rarely used; modern terms are preferred.

Historical Usage

You might find this usage in historical or scientific texts about the atmosphere.

Scientific Texts

Use ethereal to describe things or experiences that seem divine or otherworldly.

Divine Associations

Ethereal is apt for subjects relating to spiritual, mystical, or religious experiences.

Spiritual and Mystical

Authors use ethereal to create a vivid, celestial image in the reader's mind.

Literary Device

 creates ethereal sculptures and installations that really marry the organic to the industrial, and brings, like Subodh, the local global. These are actually wires wrapped in muslin and steeped in vegetable dye. And she arranges them so that the viewer actually has to navigate through the space,

Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...

 inspires me to practice the art of careful observation and to be able to navigate nimbly between things as large as a distant landscape and a small and ethereal as curls of smoke now that humans are able to discover and to shape the world on the nano scale these are

Understanding the colors...

 I've been lucky enough to answer some of these questions as I've explored this nocturnal world. Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly,

Sara Lewis: The loves...

 and then perhaps more fascinating of all for me the moon has inspired painters some of the greatest works about around the world have been inspired by moonlight and have been trying to capture the ethereal qualities of the light so 50 years on from man first

How The Moon Affects Our...

 and realized it also implied that mass and energy, one apparently solid and the other supposedly ethereal, were actually equivalent. And their relationship could be expressed in what was to become the most famous and consequential equation in

Einstein's miracle year...

 that control whether a planet can support life. Take the planet Venus. It's named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky. But spacecraft measurements revealed a different story.

Aomawa Shields: How...

 Adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light, it became an insignia of monastic love. This association between the heart and love has withstood modernity. When Barney Clark, a retired dentist with end-stage heart failure,

How your emotions change...

 existing whether we find its truths or not? Are numbers, polygons and equations truly real, or merely ethereal representations of some theoretical ideal? The independent reality of math has some ancient advocates.

Is math discovered or...

 based on hidden data sets that we collected from wind sensors. We then used generative algorithms to transform wind speed, gust and direction into an ethereal data pigment.

Art in the age of...

 confined spaces present a very material problem for Japanese architects which they often resolved using ethereal