Quotes About Beardsley

N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,

Then the curtain fell with a pudic rapidity.

I think the title page I drew for Salom was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.