Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

"I am quite incapable of doing them , even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like heaven knows what.. .. the devil to paint, precisely because it is so beautiful."

"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..…"

"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it! Eh? What? Isn't that so, my dear chap?"

"When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens."

"Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired."

"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 Jeann…"

"Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre at the National Gallery of Art"

"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 ta…"