art is long, life is short
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Latin ars longa, vīta brevis
Proverb
[edit]- Art is more enduring than an individual's lifetime.
- August 24, 2017, Passport Magazine, Hong Kong:
- In the side of a storage structure, I note a surely-not-officially sanctioned graffiti slogan, "Art is Long, Life is Short".
- 2002, Edmund White, Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS:
- Remembrance of Things Past Marc Lida's Proust Watercolors Jonathan Weinberg "Art is long, life is short," or so we are told.
- 2011, Benjamin Franklin with John Bigelow, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself:
- Alas! art is long and life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory .
Translations
[edit]art is more enduring than life
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