Best Wyndham Lewis Quotes
- Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Art
- So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a… Austerity
- With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… Advertised
- The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… Assume
- If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it… Attack
- Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? Die
- Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. Artist
- I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. Artist
- Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this… Address
- There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that… Bookful
- Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. Emotion
- The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… Arbitrary
- Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the… Exploit
- Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! Art
- The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is… Advantage
- The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… Anything Else
- A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to… Age
- The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… Arbitrary
- In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. Bastard
- Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, therevolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read arevolutionary speech, we… Art