Henri De Toulouse-lautrec Quotes

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“All confined things die.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I am alone all day, I read a little but it gives me a headache. I draw and I paint, as much as I can, so much so that my hand gets tired and when it begins to get dark I wait to see if Jeanne d'Armagnac [one of the cousins] will come and sit by my bed. She comes sometimes and tries to distract me and play with me, and I listen to her speak without daring to look at her, she is so tall and so beautiful! And I am neither tall nor beautiful.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I have always been a pencil.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Love is a disease that fills you with a desire to be desired.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I am quite incapable of doing them [making landscapes], even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like heaven knows what...[the Mediterranean landscape was] the devil to paint, precisely because it is so beautiful.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally...It may be a defect, for I have no mercy on warts, and I like adorning them with wanton hairs, rounding them off and giving them a bright surface... - A painter in embryo.. ..- Write me a line soon. I am feverish with anxiety.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I could never have believed that such kindness existed: to receive my wretched drawings and then thank me into the bargain. And you need not be so scrupulous about my drawings. Just use those you like.. ..But, I am madly, crazily happy at the thought that your prose [Devismes novel 'Cocotte'], like so many fireworks, will frame my daubs, that you should have offered me a helping hand on the arduous road towards getting known....”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“There are two young Englishmen in the next rooms to ours who are superb; their two sisters, looking like umbrellas, are here too, dressed in pink, with a little friend in blue with red hair. She is a type I have tried to draw on horseback but have not succeeded.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it! [And then probably with a fourth sniff as a break] Eh? What? Isn't that so, my dear chap?”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I can't do it, I can't do it. I simply can't help turning a deaf ear to it and banging my head against the wall - yes - and all for art that escapes me and will never know all the trouble I have taken on its behalf.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“The Mirlitons in the Place Vendôme, opposite the column! What a crush! A lot of people, a lot of women, and a lot of nonsense! It's a crush made up of gloved hands manipulating tortoiseshell or gold lorgnettes, but it's a crush all the same!”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Only the human figure exists; the landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of the landscape is nothing but a bore.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“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 are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Of course one should not drink much, but often.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“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 to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind but most funny.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Novelty is seldom essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“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 harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necessary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“I can paint until I'm forty. After that, I intend to dry up.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
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“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 gather my courage and start once again.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

“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.”
― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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