More quotes by Anton Chekhov

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality."
"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs."
"In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)"