Art is long and life is short.

Art is long and life is short.
Art is long and life is short.
Prov. Works of art last much longer than human lives.; Life is too short to learn everything you need to know about a particular discipline. •

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.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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