Moulin Rouge (1952)

Claude Nollier: Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec

Quotes 

• Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec : Come home now, Henri. Give up this life.

  Henri : It is the only one I have, Maman. And it is not all dissipation, as you might think. There is some virtue in it too. These canvases are your son's. Not a miserable cripple with shrunken legs.

  Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec : Can you not paint at home in Toulouse? The countryside is so beautiful.

  Henri : I have a friend, Maman, he is a painter too. His name is Vincent Van Gogh. He paints wheat fields, hot with the sun of Provence. A man can stare at one of his canvases and go blind with delight. I cannot paint his fields. But, he cannot paint my girls at the Moulin Rouge. I am a painter of the streets - and of the gutter.

• Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec : Show me your latest painting.

  Henri : This...

  Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec : The paint is dry?

  Henri : Sometime one's inspiration falters.

• Henri : Maman, I am leaving here. I am going to Paris. I shall become a painter. I shall try to make a life for myself.

  Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec : You will... you will be lonely there, Henri!

  Henri : I will be lonely anywhere, Maman.