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Life is short, art is forever

Hippocrates

Phraseologism: Life is short, art is eternal.

Meaning: The artist, the creator dies, but the fruits of his hands, the creations of his spirit, mind, art live forever, and thus they keep the memory (remind) of the person who created them, the master lives in his creations.

Origin: From Latin: Vita brevis, ars longa. From a well-known saying that belongs to the great ancient Greek thinker, naturalist, great physician, founder of modern medical ethics, Hippocrates (460-370 BC). Speaking of "art", he had in mind not artistic creativity, but the art of healing. And the meaning of this comparison lies in the fact that the art of healing is so complex, it requires so much knowledge that even a whole human life is not enough to comprehend them. “Hence,” explained the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annei Seneca in his essay “On the Brevity of Life,” the famous exclamation of the greatest of physicians that life is short and art is long.” In the original, the thought of Hippocrates sounds like this: Life is short, the path of art is long (another translation: science is immense), chance is fleeting, experience is deceptive, judgment is difficult. Therefore, not only the doctor himself should use everything that is necessary, but also the patient, and those around him, and all external circumstances should contribute to the doctor in his activity. The expression became popular after J. W. Goethe repeated it in his tragedy "Faust" in this form: "Art is durable, but our life is short."

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Origin:

The first line of the poem with the same title (1961) by the Soviet poet Boris Abramovich Slutsky (1919-1986). According to some reports, this ironic phrase was in the dossier that the NKVD opened on B. A. Slutsky in the 1940s.

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