Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

— Wyndham Lewis

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

— Wyndham Lewis

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…

— Wyndham Lewis

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite....

— Wyndham Lewis

An artist should be as impartial as God.

— Wyndham Lewis

If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its…

— Wyndham Lewis

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your…

— Wyndham Lewis

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away…

— Wyndham Lewis

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more…

— Wyndham Lewis

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

Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.

— Wyndham Lewis

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

— Wyndham Lewis

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen…

— Wyndham Lewis

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places…

— Wyndham Lewis

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful…

— Wyndham Lewis

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

— Wyndham Lewis

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb…

— Wyndham Lewis

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as…

— Wyndham Lewis

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

— Wyndham Lewis

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be…

— Wyndham Lewis

In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without…

— Wyndham Lewis

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

— Wyndham Lewis

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

— Wyndham Lewis

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

— Wyndham Lewis

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

— Wyndham Lewis