Contribution Quote by Wyndham Lewis

“Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.”

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Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

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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…

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Life is art's rival and vice versa.

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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.

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Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

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

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which…

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

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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.…

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

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

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