Henri Lautrec Quotes & Sayings

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges. — Harbhajan Singh

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 the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater. — 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 am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland. — Konstantin Rokossovsky

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

One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl. — Lisa Kleypas

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

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive. — 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 paint things as they are. I don't comment. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled. — Samuel Johnson

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics. — James L. Petigru

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak. — Alan Shearer

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

I'm so small that my husband won't be able to find me in the bed. And when he does, he'll discover that my breasts are uneven and I'm shaped like an eggplant. — Kristin Cashore

I don't know what the next acting job will be. I would love to do a comedy. — Rebecca Mader

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

I have always been a pencil. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her — Lord Byron

Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business? — Kersten Hamilton

The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

We are all are cripples in some way.
[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] — Irving Stone

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness. — Neville Cardus

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

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired ... - Comte de Toulouse — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Don't, he thought. Don't let it happen. Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. Harry — Jo Nesbo

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

Jealousy will drive you mad. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you. — Luther E. Vann

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

For most of the last thirty years the judicial system has been fairly consistent: once they leave your body, you do not own your tissue, organs, or bodily fluids or any of the revenue they might generate for a biotech company, a university, or anyone else. — Misha Angrist

I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day. — Lewis Black

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

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. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it). — George E.P. Box