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“I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally.. .It may be a defect, for I have no mercy on warts, and I like adorning them with wanton hairs, rounding them off and giving them a bright surface.. . - A painter in embryo.. ..- Write me a line soon. I am feverish with anxiety.”

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Title: Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

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