"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."

“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.”