"The artist is always engaged in writing a……" — Wyndham Lewis
"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 present."
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45 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis has 45 quotes on this site.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social 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…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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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…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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More Always Engaged Quotes
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The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of…
— John Haynes Holmes
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LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center;…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a…
— Winston Churchill
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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and…
— Anne Michaels
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