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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. -- William Shakespeare
Life is short, the art long. -- Hippocrates
The art is long, life is short. -- Hippocrates
Art is eternal, but life is short. -- Evelyn de Morgan
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. -- Anthony Trollope
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. -- Deborah Eisenberg
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. -- Neil Gaiman
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. -- Joyce Maynard
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. -- Frank Shorter
Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short. -- Thomas Middleditch
Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. -- Kelis
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way. -- Brit Marling
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). -- Jerry Saltz
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. -- Lynda Resnick
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. -- Wole Soyinka
My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants. -- Steve Jones
The art is long, life is short -- Hippocrates
Life is short and art is long. -- Seneca the Younger
Life is short and the art long. -- Hippocrates
Art's too long and life's too short. -- Grace Paley
Life is short, but art lives forever. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art indeed is long, but life is short. -- Andrew Marvell
Art is too long, and life is too short, -- Grace Paley
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing. -- Rene Dubos
There is no work of art that is without short cuts. -- Andre Gide
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. -- Hippocrates
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. -- Joseph Conrad
The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long. -- George Saunders
I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree. -- PJ Harvey
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. -- Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. -- Anna Deavere Smith
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. -- George Saunders
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose. -- Evelyn de Morgan
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. -- Tim Crane
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. -- Petrarch
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. -- Lawren Harris
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art! -- Mary Augusta Ward
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.' -- Keith Richards
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives. -- Donald Miller
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. -- Marcus Aurelius
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. -- Kevin Munroe
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality. -- Simon Schama
This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels. -- Liza Campbell
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes. -- Alyson Noel
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel. -- Alice Munro
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. -- Thomas Reid
I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur. -- Keith Richards
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. -- Philip K. Dick

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