Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

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 when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

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.

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.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

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

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

Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.

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.

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

I have always been a pencil.

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.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

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