> [!custom-soil-type]- Note Details > - Growth stage: [[soil ✨]] > - Type: [[Phrase]] > - Tags: [[Inbox/Queue/art]], [[life]] - art is long, life is short - "Hippocrates’ _Aphorismi_, his collection of pithy one-liners on how to fix various ailments" - artists will come and go, but their art endures - "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment fallible, judgment difficult." - "the underlying philosophical issue concerns man's standing as what has been called a "cosmic orphan" in the universe, i.e., the one creature acutely aware of its own mortality even while striving and dreaming to make something out of life while it exists. The Stoics, like Seneca, essentially said that we are wise when we make the most of what we have, whatever its temporal duration." [source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1188061) - "skilfulness takes time and life is short".