"How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did — sly dog!"

Aubrey Beardsley Art See all quotes by Aubrey Beardsley →

React to this quote

More by Aubrey Beardsley

“I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.”

“In Black and White: the literary remains of Aubrey Beardsley”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.”

Resonant Thoughts

"One must have faith in the best in men and distrust the worst. One must allow the best to be shown so that it reveals and prevails over the worst. Nations should have a pillory for whoever stirs up us…"

— José Martí

Literature1853–1895

#faith

"At birth all of us imagine that we are the universe, and we don't distinguish the boundaries between ourselves and those around us. ...in some social situations, there is the sense that we are central…"

— Carl Sagan

Science1934–1996

#nature

"Rowling got millions of young people reading, who grew up to be consumers who branched out into other authors and genres. You shouldn’t yell at her. You should thank her."

— Larry Correia

Literature1977

#books

"I don't speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. I just want to ask a tough question."

— Helen Thomas

Politics1920–2013

#knowledge