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!
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.
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.
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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