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
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — 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
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,… — 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
Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has… — 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
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
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
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, therevolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
