Tolstoy on Chekhov

[GP Gandolfo]

        Lev Tolstoy wrote somewhere ( or is reported to have said) that Anton
Chehov reminds the art of the impressionists: from near you just see color
spots, but when you move back a few steps these spots merge into a a well
defined picture (or something like that). Right here and now I do not have
Tostoy's works around, and cannot locate the exact source of the quotation.
Can any seelanger help me? Thank you
                        Giampaolo Gandolfo

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