An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Man is what he believes.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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