Quotes from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

I have always been a pencil.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

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.

Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.

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.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

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.

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.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

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

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.