Toulouse-Lautrec Art Quotes - (8 quotes)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Criticism category:

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)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Deception category:

They [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)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Drunkenness category:

Of course one should not drink much, but often. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Fashion category:

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Models category:

-on women in the brothel...
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Painting category:

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Subject category:

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)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - From the Truth category:

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)