letting your pencil be true (24 November 2016)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Ladies in the Brothel Dining-room, 1893

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

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dancer Adjusting Her Tights, 1890

I have always been a pencil.

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: The Spanish Walk, 1899

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,  Is It Enough To Want Something Passionately (The Good Jockey), 1895


I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necessary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887/88

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

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Au Moulin Rouge, 1892