I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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 diffic…

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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

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 coura…

- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec