« All Turpentine Quotes
·
Wyndham Lewis's Page
Turpentine Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
1 Turpentine quote by Wyndham Lewis
More Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
-
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…
-
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
-
Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman,…
-
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
-
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…
-
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…
-
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
-
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or…
-
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
-
But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…
-
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
See all 48 quotes by Wyndham Lewis »
More Turpentine Quotes
Popular Turpentine quotes from across the collection:
-
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
— Robert Rauschenberg
-
The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
— Peter Tork
-
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
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
-
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the…
— Joan Miro
-
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start…
— Edward Hopper
-
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and…
— David Lynch
-
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you…
— Pablo Picasso
-
...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude…
— Cassandra Clare
-
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
— Norman Rockwell
-
Slips off of your tongue like turpentine and I don't know why white liar.
— Miranda Lambert
See all Turpentine Quotes »
Browse Wyndham Lewis Quotes by Category