Art

Two whimsical digital art collages, with a Latin inflection.
• Ars longa, vita brevis [Art is long, life is short] — Hippocrates (Hippocrates of Kos), Aphorisms I.1 (c. 400 BCE) ❦
• Ars adeo latet arte sua [Art is so hidden by its own art] — Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses X.252 (c. 8 CE) ❦

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[Through learning
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  John Tenniel illustration of the White Rabbit,
in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Time flies like an arrow;
fruit flies like a banana

   Tempus fugit et augebitur scientia   
[Time flies and knowledge will increase]