The Art of the Hoarding (1894)
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sly dog!
Table Talk" p. 64
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
“The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.”
On the Brompton Oratory, in "Table Talk" p. 63.
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
“I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.”
A punnish reference to his tuberculosis and public image as a dandy, as quoted in "In Black and White" http://www.cypherpress.com/beardsley/prose/tabletalk.asp edited by Stephen Calloway
On illustrating Le Mort d'Arthur (1893), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 155
The Art of the Hoarding (1894)
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From an interview in the newspaper To-Day (1894), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200
Context: 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.
“I see everything in a grotesque way.”
From an interview given in 1894, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 220
Context: I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them — the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.
“It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”
Quoted by Robert Ross in a eulogy. http://www.archive.org/stream/aubreybeardsley00rossrich#page/16/mode/2up
“Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
In an interview with <i>The Idler</i> (1896), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 309
As quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189
Table Talk" p. 64
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
In an interview with <i>The Idler</i> (1896), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 309
“I shall not live much longer than did Keats.”
As quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 214
The Story of a Confession Album (1889)
Table Talk" p. 63
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
and, recollect, no gate money, no catalogue
The Art of the Hoarding (1894)
