My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones.... It's about time for writers particularly those who are genuine artists to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.
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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
Anton Pavlovich 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 the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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