Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes

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• I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
• [People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete…
• Of course one should not drink much, but often.
• I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
• I have always been a pencil.
• I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
• I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.
• Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must…
• Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
• I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing…
• Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
• I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me…
• A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.
• When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.
• Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.
• Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse
• Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
• In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They…
• I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no…

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