Artist Quotes by Wyndham Lewis

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

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

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

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

— Wyndham Lewis

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

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

— Wyndham Lewis

All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

— Wyndham Lewis

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

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

— Wyndham Lewis

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

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

— Wyndham Lewis

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

— Wyndham Lewis

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

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

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