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Anton Chekhov - From the Artists category:
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Artists category:
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Criticism category:
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has neither. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Drunkenness category:
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Environment category:
-lived: 1860-1904...
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Freedom category:
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Future category:
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Gender category:
-Uncle Vanya, act 3 (1897)
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair." (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Instinct category:
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Nature category:
-lived: 1860-1904...
Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Problems category:
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Profession category:
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and iterature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Sadness category:
-The Seagull, act 1 (1896)
I'm in mourning for my life, I'm unhappy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Seeing category:
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Simplicity category:
Brevity is the sister of talent. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Solitude category:
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Talent category:
There is nothing new in art except talent. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Words category:
I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy. (Anton Chekhov)
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