I am certainly not ...

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.
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 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
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 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.
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 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.
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 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec