Lautrec Quotes & Sayings

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 have consumed more drink than the first
one hundred men you will pass
on the street
or meet in the madhouse.
I scratch my belly and dream of the
albatross.
I have joined the great drunks of
the centuries:
Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner.
I have been selected
but by whom? — Charles Bukowski

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 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

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

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

I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec. — Christopher Moore

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas. — 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

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

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 stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite. — 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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability. — Jonathan Trigell

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible. — John Leguizamo

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

Jealousy will drive you mad. — 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

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec. — Joe Flaherty

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

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