Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
Prostration is our natural position. A wormlike movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship.… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share
