Wyndham Lewis Quotes
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Atmosphere
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
Advance
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
Activity
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter…
Average
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
Abusive
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to…
Abstract
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its…
Abruptly
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Becomes
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary…
Art
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Art
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and…
All
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
Funny
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value…
Advertisement
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are…
Arbitrary
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Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
Big
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But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian…
All
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite....
Comfortable
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Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
Broken
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I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic,…
Been
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the…
Always Engaged
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