A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.
Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.
Life is short, the art long.
The art is long, life is short.
Life is short and art is long.
The art is long, life is short
Life is short and the art long.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
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.
Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.
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