Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov

To advise is not to compel.

Anton Chekhov

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

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

Anton Chekhov

True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.

Anton Chekhov

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Anton Chekhov

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov