"art is long, life is short" meaning in English

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          "ref": "August 24, 2017, Passport Magazine, Hong Kong",
          "text": "In the side of a storage structure, I note a surely-not-officially sanctioned graffiti slogan, \"Art is Long, Life is Short\".",
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          "ref": "2002, Edmund White, Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS",
          "text": "Remembrance of Things Past Marc Lida's Proust Watercolors Jonathan Weinberg \"Art is long, life is short,\" or so we are told.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Benjamin Franklin with John Bigelow, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself",
          "text": "Alas! art is long and life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory .",
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        "Art is more enduring than an individual's lifetime."
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          "word": "afterlife"
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        {
          "word": "life is short, art is long"
        },
        {
          "word": "life is temporary, art is forever"
        },
        {
          "word": "life is short"
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ho bíos brakhús hē dè tékhnē makrḗ",
          "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
          "word": "ὁ βίος βραχύς ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή"
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          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
          "word": "ars longa, vīta brevis"
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        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
          "word": "vita brevis, ars longa"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "žiznʹ korotká, iskússtvo véčno",
          "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
          "word": "жизнь коротка́, иску́сство ве́чно"
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  "word": "art is long, life is short"
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    {
      "word": "life is short, art is long"
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    {
      "word": "life is temporary, art is forever"
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      "word": "life is short"
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "ho bíos brakhús hē dè tékhnē makrḗ",
      "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
      "word": "ὁ βίος βραχύς ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή"
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      "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
      "word": "ars longa, vīta brevis"
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      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
      "word": "vita brevis, ars longa"
    },
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      "roman": "žiznʹ korotká, iskússtvo véčno",
      "sense": "art is more enduring than life",
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  "word": "art is long, life is short"
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