Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Born: November 24, 1864
Died: September 9, 1901 (aged 36)
Bio: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an oeuvre of provocative images of modern life.
Known for:
- Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (1891)
- Woman at Her Toil (1896)
- Divan Japonais (1892)
- The laundress (1886)
- In salon of rue des Moulins (1894)







