Aubrey Beardsley: Making

Aubrey Beardsley was English illustrator and author. Explore interesting quotes on making.

Aubrey Beardsley: 38 quotes0 likes

“One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.”

Aubrey Beardsley

The Art of the Hoarding (1894)

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

Aubrey Beardsley

Quoted by Robert Ross in a eulogy. http://www.archive.org/stream/aubreybeardsley00rossrich#page/16/mode/2up

“The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.”

Aubrey Beardsley

The Story of a Confession Album (1889)