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Top 10 Aubrey Beardsley Quotes (2025 Update)

Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “I have one aim – the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “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.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “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.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “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.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “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?”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “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 Quote: “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.”
Aubrey Beardsley Quote: “Then the curtain fell with a pudic rapidity.”
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