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

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

I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them — the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.

I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.