"When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens."
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p. 61/62 - in a letter to his friend Etienne Devismes, Late Summer of 1881
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
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