“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.”
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Famous Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
“It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”
Source: Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse
Source: Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty
“Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.”
Source: Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography
“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
Source: Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse
“I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”