You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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