"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 courage and start once again..."

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#Drawing Quotes #Painting Quotes #Chic Quotes

“What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.”
“The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.”
“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.35, Harvard University Press
“I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.”
“The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.”
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

Source : Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.100, Cambridge University Press
“I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.”
“Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2011

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