Anton Chekhov Quotes, Art Quotes

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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