All ANTON CHEKHOV Quotes about “Art”

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”

“He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.”
“A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.”
“Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointmentsâ€¦ you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.”
“If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.”
“There is nothing new in art except talent.”
“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.”
“An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.”
“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”
“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.”
“Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.”

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