Quotes from Aubrey Beardsley

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Then the curtain fell with a pudic rapidity.

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

I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

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