A Beardsley Quotes

#1. I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

Dick Beardsley

#2. An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

Margo Kingston

#3. When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever

Dick Beardsley

#4. Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

Aubrey Beardsley

#5. It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

Mark Victor Hansen

#6. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

Sanjaya Baru

#7. 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.

Aubrey Beardsley

#8. A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

Dick Beardsley

#9. In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

Aubrey Beardsley

#10. The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

Helen Beardsley

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

Aubrey Beardsley

#12. Context is everything. - Prof Nick Fennimore

A.D. Garrett

#13. 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

#14. According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

Jack Kornfield

#15. The victorious life of a Christian depends on His correct thinking that is based on the word of God

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Those who are not Free, can't even climb a Tree ... Forget about them being what they want to Be!-RVM

R.v.m.

#17. No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

#18. 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.

Aubrey Beardsley

#19. When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

Nick Hancock

#20. A parent has to be silent much of the time.

Helen Beardsley

#21. I have one aim - the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Aubrey Beardsley

#22. Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo

Andrew Bleiman

#23. I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

Peter Beardsley

#24. I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

Mike Vallely

#25. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#26. What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

Aubrey Beardsley

#27. When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

Aubrey Beardsley

#28. We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.

David A. Beardsley

#29. If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

Aubrey Beardsley

#30. Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

Helen Beardsley

#31. Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

Vladimir Nabokov

#32. 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,

John Gielgud

#33. I like being president because i get a cool house

Barack Obama

#34. Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.

David A. Beardsley

#35. 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.

Aubrey Beardsley

#36. Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy ...

Oscar Wilde