Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes about Art

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a famous French painter associated with the Post-Impressionism art movement. He is best known for his paintings and posters of the colorful people in Montmartre, particularly the prostitutes and performers at the Moulin Rouge cabaret. Famous Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec artworks include “The Laundress”, “Study of a Nude”, “The Artist’s Mother, the Countess Adèle de Toulouse Lautrec at Breakfast”, “Portrait of Vincent van Gogh”, “At the Moulin Rouge”, “The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge”, “In Bed”, “The Medical Inspection at the Rue des Moulins Brothel”, “Ambassadeurs – Aristide Bruant”, and “Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge”.

Mini biography: Born Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa on the 24th of November 1864 in Albi, Tarn, France. His mother was Adèle Zoë Tapié de Celeyran and his father Alphonse Charles Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was an aristocrat. The artist died on the 9th of September, 1901 in Saint-André-du-Bois, France at the age of 36. Toulouse-Lautrec is buried at the Cimetière de Verdelais in Verdelais, France.

List of Famous Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Art Quotes

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

A model is always a stuffed doll, but these women are alive. I wouldn’t venture to pay them the hundred sous to sit for me, and god knows whether they would be worth it. They stretch out on the sofas like animals, make no demand and they are not in the least bit conceited. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I paint things as they are. I don’t comment. I record. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have always been a pencil. 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. 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 the essential. This has to do with one thing only.. making a subject better from its intrinsic nature. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I’m very much alone all day, I read a little but, in the long run, it gives me a headache. I draw and paint as much as I can, indeed till my hand grows tired, and when night begins to fall I hope Jeanne d’Armagnac will come to my bedside. She does sometimes, and cheers me up and plays with me, and I listen to her talk, 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 tried to do what is true and not ideal. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Self Portrait Painting

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