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Ones ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.



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.



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.



Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.



I think the title page I drew for Salom was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.



I shall not live much longer than did Keats.



Im so affected, that even my lungs are affected.



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



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.



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!



Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.



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.








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