Art Quote by Anton Chekhov

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Anton Chekhov

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were…

— Arthur Erickson

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

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

— Anton Chekhov

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

— Ezra Koenig

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri