Art Quote by Aubrey Beardsley Download Open image ““People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.”” — Aubrey Beardsley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Criticism Honesty Vice
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.” — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.” — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.” — Guglielmo Ferrero Copy Share Image
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did -… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
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… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image