Art Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and…

— Vasily Grossman

“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the negative outcomes…

— Steven Pinker

Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising…

— Vladimir Nabokov

For some reason in England, the word 'Chekhovian' is associated with drifting about with a parasol, a lot of weeping, and drinking tea from…

— Geraldine James

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For certainly, at the level of social life, what is called the adjustment of man to his environment takes place through the medium of…

— David DiSalvo

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are…

— Wallace Stegner

I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low…

— Gary Shteyngart

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a…

— Edward Abbey

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last…

— Gao Xingjian