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«Ars longa, vita brevis»Хипократ (на гръцки Ιπποκράτης) (около 460 пр.н.е., остров Кос, Гърция — 377 пр.н.е., Лариса, Гърция) е най-великият лекар на Античността, още наричан баща на медицината и смятан за една от най-значими фигури в областта на медицината. С името му се свързва Хипократовата клетва. Известни Хипократови принципи са «На първо място не причинявай вреда» («Primum non nocere») и «Изкуството е вечно, а животът — кратък» («Ars longa, vita brevis»).
The translation into Latin of part of a quotation by the Greek «Father of Medicine» — Hippocrates (c. 460 BC — c. 370 BC, Greek: 'Iπποκράτης, 'Ippokrátēs).
This is one of those rare phrases in which the meaning is more debated than the origin. What is usually understood by Ars longa, vita brevis is something along the lines of «art lasts forever, but artists die and are forgotten».
That is questioned by some though, who say that it is a misinterpretation based on a misunderstanding of the translation of «ars» as «art». If we accept that the Latin term «ars» is equivalent to the Greek «techne» and that, consequently, «ars» is better translated into English as «skill» or «craft», we may opt to interpret the phrase differently. The full quotation, in Latin, is
«Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.»
...за изкуството:
— «Без творческо търсене няма оригинално изкуство» («Без творческих поисков нет подлинного искусства.») — Шостакович
— «В изкуството, както и в любовта, преди всичко трябва да бъдем откровени.» — Джузепе Верди
— «Великото изкуство внедрява в хората прекрасни идеи, които го учат да жертва всичко за щастието на човешкия род.» — Стендал
— «Във всички видове изкуства е необходимо да изпитваш само онези чувства, които искаш да събудиш у другите.» — Стендал
— «Голямото изкуство не само изобразява живота, а участвайки в живота го променя.» — Иля Еренбург
— «Животът е кратък, изкуството — вечно.» («Ars longa, vita brevis est.») — Хипократ
— «Изкуството е съвършено там, където великото се среща с правдивото.» — Виктор Юго
— «Изкуството не е хляба, а виното на живота.» — Джон Пол Рихтер
— «Най-важното правило за изкуството гласи, че то не може да подражава на нищо друго освен на истината.» — Лопе де Вега
— «Най-голямото качество на всяко изкуство е неговата искреност.» — С. В. Рахманинов
— «Публичното изкуство е това изкуство, което публиката не може да избегне.» — Джордж Уайли
— «Човек има нужда от красота, а красотата, това е изкуството.» — Райна Кабаиванска
— «Своеобразието в изразяването е алфата и омегата на всяко изкуство.» — Гьоте
— «Това, което отличава изкуството от различни периоди, е критиката.» — Октавио Паз
— «Логиката е враг на изкуството, но изкуството не трябва да бъде враг на логиката.» — Карл Краус
— «Някой може и да съществува без изкуството, но никой не може да е жив без него.» — Оскар Уайлд
...for Art:
— «Good artists borrow, great artists steal.» — Michael Berens
— «All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.» — Marc Chagall
— «Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always becomes ugly with time.» — Jean Cocteau
— «I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.» — Vincent van Gogh
— «I paint self portraits because I am the person I know best.» — Frida Kahlo
— «Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible.» — Paul Klee
— «Art should be more then just brush stokes on canvas showing a precise and literal duplication of an event. Art is for more then that. True art captures emotions, feelings and the energy of the object or event that is being depicted. It goes far deeper then the cold, flat surface of duplication.» — Joseph Minton
— «Creativity is the subtle theft of another's ideas.» — Jim Oblak
— «A community without artists is not a true community, only people living in the same vicinity.» — Byrne Piven
— «I don't paint nature, I am nature.» — Jackson Pollock
— «The philosopher sought only to discover, the artist to perfect.» — Winwood Reade
— «A work of art without conflict is not art at all.» — Kevin Ruggeberg
— «Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.» — Leonardo Da Vinci
— «We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.» — Oscar Wilde
— «If more than 5% of the people like a painting then burn it for it must be bad.» — James McNeill Whistler
— «(The object of art is) to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.» — Tennessee Williams
— «The function of all art... is an extension of the function of the visual brain, to acquire knowledge; ...artists are, in a sense, neurologists who study the capacities of the visual brain with techniques that are unique to them.» — Semir Zeki
— «Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.» — Leonard Bernstein («What Makes Opera Grand?» — «Vogue», December 1958)
— «Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.» — Leonard Bernstein («Publishers Weekly» — 5 April 1965)
— «Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.» — Winston Churchill (To Royal Academy of Arts, Time — 11 May 1953)
— «Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.» — Salvador Dali («People» — 27 September 1976)
— «All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.» — Federico Fellini (Atlantic — December 1965)
— «I do a bale of sketches, one eye, a piece of hair. A pound of observation, then an ounce of painting.» — Gardner Cox on his portraits, («Washington Post» — 31 May 1975)
— « (Discipline in art is) a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.» — Henry Moore, (recalled on his death — 31 August 1986)
— «Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.» — Boris Pasternak, («Doctor Zhivago», translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari — Pantheon 1958)
— «For a long time I limited myself to one color—as a form of discipline.» — Pablo Picasso (On his blue and rose periods, Picasso on Art.)
— «Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.» — Jackson Pollock in Jackson Pollock (1967) by Francis V O'Connor
— «Dead artists always bring out an older, richer crowd.» — Elizabeth Shaw (On a fauvism exhibition that drew 2,000 people, «The New York Times» — 26 March 1976)
— «Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.» — Leo Tolstoy («What is Art?» — 1896)
— «In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.» — Leo Tolstoy («What is Art?» — 1896)
— «The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.» — Paul Valery (Remarks on Poetry in The Art of Poetry, Vintage — 1958, p. 215.)
— «I don't really have studios. I wander around — around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.» — Andrew Wyeth («Time» — 18 August 1986)
— «In short, if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.» — Virginia Woolf in The Three Guineas.