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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 Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)

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I see everything in a grotesque way.

The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.

Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)

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

We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.

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.

Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)

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