The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVEach 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOV






