Art Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image “If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Crafts Fire Firsts Gun Hanging on Ifs Lasts Theatre Wall
“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.” — Constantin S Stanislavski Copy Share Image
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.” — F.H. Buckley Copy Share Image
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“It’s like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple. — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
