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  • With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?

    James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011

  • What you can't see in this shot is that my feet are actually cut, and (for additional grossness) I can pump up my extensor digitorum brevis muscle so that it's ripped and the veins over it pop.

    total carnage! i love it! arachnejericho 2009

  • Keeping oneself in the public eye, which helps maintain at least the financial aspect of the success going, is vital in the media age where memory is so short, inverting the old Roman adage, "ars longa, vita brevis."

    Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010

  • Alas, the aforesaid parking situation (ars longa; meter brevis) meant I had to leave before one of my favorites, the BWV 1052 D-minor concerto.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Alas, the aforesaid parking situation (ars longa; meter brevis) meant I had to leave before one of my favorites, the BWV 1052 D-minor concerto.

    Authentication keys Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Keeping oneself in the public eye, which helps maintain at least the financial aspect of the success going, is vital in the media age where memory is so short, inverting the old Roman adage, "ars longa, vita brevis."

    Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010

  • With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?

    James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011

  • Miamibrit said ... thank you for an insightful and amusing account of some concerts I wish I could have attended ... ars longa meter brevis - I shall have to remember that one

    Authentication keys Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Mommy thumb mainly affects two tendons — the abductor pollicis longus, or long thumb abductor, and the extensor pollicis brevis, or short thumb extensor.

    The Baby May Be Giving You Mommy Thumb Dawn Fallik 2010

  • In the ducal library, an entry for Raymond Lull's Ars brevis (the abbreviated version of his art of memory) is dated 1485: Urb. lat.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

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  • Latin, 'brief.'

    July 31, 2008