Toulouse-Lautrec

Lautrec could [not] associate himself with the love and compassion which filled Van Gogh at the sight of suffering. . . . Lautrec was not moved to pity by anyone, even himself. He looked on others as implacably as he looked on himself. He neither condemned nor approved: he observed. He did not judge: he analysed. He was an alien to sentiment as he was naturally indifferent to morals. He wanted simply to surprise life in all its nakedness; and nothing more. Van Gogh was all charity; Lautrec all lucidity. Their temperaments seemed to be at opposite poles. Nevertheless, the ardor which consumed them was the same.