“Art is long, life is short.”
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
“Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.”
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
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“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line
Variant: "Art is long, and time is fleeting." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1839).
“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Die Kunst ist lang, das Leben kurz, das Urteil schwierig, die Gelegenheit flüchtig.
Bk. VII, Ch. 9
Cf. Hippocrates, Ars longa vita brevis, Aphorisms 1:1
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
“Prizefighting is short. Get in. Get rich. Get out. But martial arts is for life. It's for life.”
Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer
UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC <br class="br">2010s, 2014
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Variant: Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
“When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.”
Marcello Mastroianni (1924–1996) Italian actor
As quoted in "Latin Lover"? No? How About Lover Of Life?" in The New York Times (13 August 1999), p. 116
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/vangelis01.html
Vangelis: Mythodea
2001
NASA
2001