Aubrey Beardsley: Man

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

Aubrey Beardsley: 38 quotes0 likes

“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)

“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