Top 41 Beardsley Quotes
#1. [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
#2. When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.
Nick Hancock
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#7. 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
#9. When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever
Dick Beardsley
#10. Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.
Aubrey Beardsley
#11. A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ...
Anita Loos
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Aubrey Beardsley
#17. Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#18. There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#19. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
#20. 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
#21. People spend so much time wondering why the women don't leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn't that where the only blame should be placed?
Colleen Hoover
#22. I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
Ben Whishaw
#24. The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
Billy Graham
#25. We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.
David A. Beardsley
#26. I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.
Mary Lou Retton
#28. I have one aim - the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
Aubrey Beardsley
#29. 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
#30. For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the worst we wicked ones may expect is a chemical reaction.
O. Henry
#31. Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
Felicity Huffman
#32. We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
Harry Markowitz
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
Michelle Yeoh
#38. 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
#39. Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.
David A. Beardsley
#40. 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
#41. People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.
Milo Ventimiglia
