Aubrey Beardsley Quotes

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

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.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

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!

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.