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“I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
#Grotesque Quotes
#Aim Quotes
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“Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley (1999). “Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography”, Overlook Books
#Eye Quotes
#Drawing Quotes
#Shapes Quotes
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“When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : "Under the Hill and Other Essays". Book by Aubrey Beardsley, 1904.
#Literature Quotes
#Belief Quotes
#Study Quotes
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“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography". Book by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189, 1999.
#Photography Quotes
#Artist Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
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“It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : "Aubrey Beardsley". Book by Robert Ross, p. 7, 2018.
#Artist Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Forty Quotes
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“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?”
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Aubrey Beardsley
#Book Quotes
#Garden Quotes
#Tears Quotes
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“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 my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : To-Day Interview, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200, 1894.
#Fall Quotes
#Inspire Quotes
#Humanity Quotes
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“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”
#Communication Quotes
#Rude Quotes
#Language Quotes
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“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 much the better for me.”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : The Idler Interview (1896), as quoted in "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography" by Matthew Sturgis, 1999.
#Fun Quotes
#Drawing Quotes
#People Quotes
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“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!”
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Aubrey Beardsley
Source : Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”
#Dog Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Differences Quotes
