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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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“I have always been a pencil.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ‎Riva Castleman, ‎Wolfgang Wittrock (1985) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: images of the 1890's . p. 44
“Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Peter McWilliams (1997) Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance. p. 23
“I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Henry O. Dormann (2009) The Speaker's Book of Quotations, Updated and Revised. p. 26
“Le vieux con!”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, quoted in: Art News Annual, Vol. 20, (1951), p. 82
“I am quite incapable of doing them [making landscapes], even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like heaven knows what.. ..[the Mediterranean landscape was] the devil to paint, precisely because it is so beautiful.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 46 - remark to his friend Etienne Devismes - in Nice, 1879
“I'm very much alone all day, I read a litle 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 [his cousin] 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 (1864–1901) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 53 - written note in Nice, Winter of 1880
“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.. . - A painter in embryo.. ..- Write me a line soon. I am feverish with anxiety.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 60 - quote in a letter to his friend Etienne Devismes, Summer of 1881
“I could never have believed that such kindness existed: to receive my wretched drawings and then thank me into the bargain. And you need not be so scrupulous about my drawings. Just use those you like.. ..But, I am madly, crazily happy at the thought that your prose [Devismes novel 'Cocotte'], like so many fireworks, will frame my daubs, that you should have offered me a helping hand on the arduous road towards getting known...”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 61 - in a letter to his friend Etienne Devismes, Summer of 1881
“When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 61/62 - in a letter to his friend Etienne Devismes, Late Summer of 1881
“There are two young Englishmen in the next rooms to ours who are superb; their two sisters, looking like umbrellas, are here too, dressed in pink, with a little friend in blue with red hair. She is a type I have tried to draw on horseback but have not succeeded.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 56 - in a letter, Winter 1881 from Nice, where he stayed with his mother
“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it! [And then probably with a fourth sniff as a break] Eh? What? Isn't that so, my dear chap?”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can't do it, I can't do it. I simply can't help turning a deaf ear to it and banging my head against the wall - yes - and all for an art that escapes me and will never know all the trouble I have taken on its behalf.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 80 - c. 1882-1883
“Lautrec was still satisfying his rather classical art-teacher Cormon in Paris. The unreal conventions of Cormon imposed and discouraged him, according to Henri Perruchot”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Mirlitons in the Place Vendôme, opposite the column! What a crush! A lot of people, a lot of women, and a lot of nonsense! It's a crush made up of gloved hands manipulating tortoiseshell or gold lorgnettes; but it's a crush all the same!”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lautrec visited in the Spring of 1885 several exhibitions in Paris, he made a note of his impressions. His spontaneous criticisms were irreverent, with a certain irony. 'Le Mirliton', a Paris cabaret, was opened in 1885…