Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — French Artist born on November 24, 1864, died on September 09, 1901

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, alongside Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction... (wikipedia)

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

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

I have always been a pencil.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

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