Art Quote by Alice Neel

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

— Dean Koontz

Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those…

— Vanessa Kirby

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov…

— Ira Sachs

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady…

— Claire Messud

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

— Jane Gardam

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so…

— Orhan Pamuk

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter…

— Walter J. Phillips

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible,…

— Martin Schoeller

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel…

— Ken Kalfus

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

— Nathan Oliveira

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in…

— John Singer Sargent

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

— Ron Parker