Aubrey Beardsley citations

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, né le 21 août 1872 à Brighton et mort le 15 mars 1898 à Menton, est un graveur et illustrateur britannique, souvent associé au mouvement art nouveau.

Il reste connu pour ses illustrations stylisées et sinueuses en noir et blanc, où l’on perçoit l’influence de l’art japonais et de l'art rococo. Son art, jugé grotesque et décadent par la bonne société de son époque, a plus tard été vu comme une critique de l'hypocrisie de la société victorienne. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. août 1872 – 16. mars 1898
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Aubrey Beardsley: Citations en anglais

“I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”

From an interview in the newspaper To-Day (1894), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200
Contexte: 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
Contexte: 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

“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)

“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.”

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

“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

“I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it… I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.”

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

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