Aubrey Beardsley: Man

Aubrey Beardsley was English illustrator and author. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“What view the bill-sticker and sandwich man take of the subject I have yet to learn. The first is, at least, no bad substitute for a hanging committee, and the clothes of the second are better company than somebody else’s picture, and less obtrusive than a background of stamped magenta paper.”

Aubrey Beardsley

The Art of the Hoarding (1894)

Learning , Clothes

“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

“There was a young man with a salary,
Who had to do drawings for Malory;
When they asked him for more,
He replied, 'Why? Sure
You've enough as it is for a gallery.”

Aubrey Beardsley

On illustrating Le Mort d'Arthur (1893), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 155

Drawing