"Art is long and life is short" nghĩa là gì?

Time Jumper. Photo courtesy Hartwig HKD.

'Art is long and life is short' có nghĩa là tác phẩm nghệ thuật có tuổi thọ lâu hơn con người, hay cuộc sống quá ngắn để hiểu tất cả mọi điều bạn cần biết về một môn học cụ thể (Ars longa, vita brevis).

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Alan: You ought to do something besides paint pictures in your spare time. Come out with us, have some fun.
Bob: Having fun will not win me immortality. Only my paintings can do that. Art is long and life is short.

I always feel a sense of awe when I look at the Babylonian statues in the art museum. They were made thousands of years ago. Art is long and life is short.

As Hippocrates noted, art is long and life is short. But the life of some ancient art is growing shorter, hampered by environmental factors like climate, light, pollution — or by dynamite. To keep cultural artifacts from fading from view and collective memory, a blend of art reproduction and digital technology is being used to produce precise replicas of original works.

The hard-boiled wisdom of the ancients held that art is long and life is short, but Harvey Shapiro has found a loophole. Now in his 80's, Shapiro has been scrivening his pithy streetwise verse for more than a half-century, and it's evident from this collection that one of the secrets of his stamina is his canny economy of scale. In a neat reversal of the gloomy classical dictum, Shapiro's has been a long, full life marked by a great many brisk, sparse poems: he specializes in the bite-size vignette, the laconic anecdote, the epigrammatic squib, the thumbnail sketch and all manner of quick takes.

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