Artist Quotes by Anton Chekhov

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

— Anton Chekhov

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

— Anton Chekhov

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.

— Anton Chekhov

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

— Anton Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

— Anton Chekhov

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to…

— Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be…

— Anton Chekhov

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an…

— Anton Chekhov

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving…

— Anton Chekhov

“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are…

— Anton Chekhov

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a…

— Anton Chekhov

“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving…

— Anton Chekhov

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out,…

— Anton Chekhov

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That…

— Anton Chekhov

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a…

— Anton Chekhov

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who…

— Anton Chekhov

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many…

— Anton Chekhov

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .…

— Anton Chekhov

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and…

— Anton Chekhov

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me…

— Anton Chekhov

“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with…

— Anton Chekhov