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> [Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/things-shape-themselves-before-my-eyes-just-as-a-i-draw-them/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

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## More by Aubrey Beardsley

> [Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/things-shape-themselves-before-my-eyes-just-as-a-i-draw-them/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/when-an-englishman-has-professed-his-belief-in-the-supremacy-of/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/how-few-of-our-young-english-impressionists-knew-the-difference/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/i-have-one-aim-the-grotesque-if-i-am-not-grotesque-i-am-nothing/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/what-is-a-portrait-good-for-unless-it-shows-just-how-the-subject-was/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/i-have-always-done-my-sketches-as-people-would-say-for-the-fun-of-it/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [No language is rude that can boast polite writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/no-language-is-rude-that-can-boast-polite-writers/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/if-i-am-not-grotesque-i-am-nothing/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/advertisement-is-an-absolute-necessity-of-modern-life-and-if-it-can/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/people-hate-to-see-their-vices-depicted-but-vice-is-terrible-and-it/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/all-humanity-inspires-me-every-passer-by-is-my-unconscious-sitter-and/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/in-the-present-age-alas-our-pens-are-ravished-by-unlettered-authors/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

> [It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/it-takes-only-one-man-to-make-an-artist-but-forty-to-make-an/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

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