"All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles."

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

“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!”

“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.”