Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecwas 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, with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth24 November 1864
CountryFrance
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.
The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
I paint things as they are. I don't comment.
The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.
I have always been a pencil.
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.
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...
I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.
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.
I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
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.