Aubrey Beardsley - Man Quotes

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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

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

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

Aubrey Beardsley