Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Aubrey Beardsley (English Illustrator)

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–98) was an English literary-visual artist of the 1890s avant-garde. He was notorious in the 1890s as the outstanding artist of Fin de siècle decadence, along with Oscar Wilde.

Born in Brighton, Sussex, Beardsley worked in an architect’s and fire insurance offices. He became famous for his fantastic posters and illustrations for Morte d’Arthur, Oscar Wilde’s Salome (1894,) Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1896,) Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (1896,) Ben Jonson’s Volpone (1898,) as well as for the Yellow Book magazine (1894–96.) Beardsley’s own Book of Fifty Drawings, mostly executed in black and white, in a highly individualistic asymmetrical style.

Beardsley’s manuscripts include The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, a delightfully rococo and highly cultivated erotic romance. An expurgated adaptation, Under the Hill, was published in the Savoy; an unexpurgated edition, printed privately in 1907, contains a cruel caricature of Wilde as “Priapusa, the fat manicure and fardeuse.”

Beardsley died of tuberculosis at Menton, France, having become a Roman Catholic. Biographies include Brigid Brophy’s Black & White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1970) and Stephen Calloway’s Aubrey Beardsley (1998.)

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Aubrey Beardsley
Topics: Language

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
Topics: Books, Literature

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