“Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh.”
quoted by Henri Perruchot, in T-Lautrec, transl. Humphrey Hare; The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1960/61, p. 51
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