34 Quotes by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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.

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.

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