In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not… - Aubrey Beardsley
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not…
- Aubrey Beardsley
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness … - Aubrey Beardsley
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness …
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog! - Aubrey Beardsley
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. - Aubrey Beardsley
I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. - Aubrey Beardsley
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of lit… - Aubrey Beardsley
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of lit…
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so … - Aubrey Beardsley
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so …
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. - Aubrey Beardsley
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them. - Aubrey Beardsley
Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.
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