A Quote by Andrew Marvell

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Andrew Marvell

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Art Indeed Life Life Is Life Is Short Long Short

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Andrew Marvell
English - Writer
March 31, 1621 - August 16, 1678

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Richard Bach

Life is short and the art long.

Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short

Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long.

Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short.

Hippocrates

Life is short and art is long.

Seneca the Younger

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

Brian D. McLaren

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

Rene Dubos

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

George Saunders

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Joseph Conrad

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.

Kukai

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.