Top 32 Quotes About Toulouse Lautrec
#1. In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.
John Leguizamo
#3. Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Joe Flaherty
#4. We are all are cripples in some way.
[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]
Irving Stone
#5. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#6. The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
Alton Brown
#9. I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#11. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#15. 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
#16. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#17. [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
#18. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#19. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#20. The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#24. The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#27. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#28. 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.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#31. 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
