Wyndham Lewis Quotes

• 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.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Writing, Artist, Persons

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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, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

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  Running, Zoos, Sharks

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

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  Order, Broken, Broken Up

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• An artist should be as impartial as God.

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  Artist, Should

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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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  Revenge, War, Intelligent

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• 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 captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

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  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

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  Cities, Canada, Portraits

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• Donde hay verdad objetiva, hay sátira.

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  Objective Truth, Satire, Objectives

  Wyndham Lewis (1950). “Rude Assignment: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-date”

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• La risa es el clímax de la tragedia de ver, oír y oler de forma inconsciente.

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  Laughter, Self, Tragedy

  "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.

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• Incluso en la sociedad primitiva, los hombres sólo se convertían en "hombres" con gran dificultad: el varón no es "hombre" por naturaleza, como tampoco lo es la mujer. Tiene que ser apuntalado en esa posición con algún ingenio, y siempre es probable que se derrumbe.

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  Men, Males, Gender

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

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  Routine, Revolution, Violent

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.37, Ardent Media

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• In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.

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  Taken, Men, House

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• Pero el "arte" no es nada serio ni exclusivo: es el olor de la pintura al óleo, la Vie de Boheme de Henri Murger, los pantalones de pana, la modelo italiana de ópera: pero la poesía, sobre todo, del aceite de linaza y la trementina.

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  Art, Italian, Oil

  Wyndham Lewis, Scott W. Klein (2010). “Tarr”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• A raíz de la revolución feminista, lo femenino se convierte en un epíteto abusivo.

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  Feminist, Feminism, Revolution

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

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  Air, Village, Earth

  America and Cosmic Man ch. 2 (1948)

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• God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

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  Reality, Mind, Bangs

  Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen

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• Las calles de una ciudad moderna son deprimentes. Son tan sin rumbo y tan débiles en sus líneas y sus masas, que la mente y los sentidos siguen su camino trotando como pasajeros de un tren con las persianas bajadas en un vagón abarrotado.

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  Depressing, Cities, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Se ha persuadido al varón para que asuma un determinado papel oneroso y desagradable con la promesa de recompensas, materiales y psicológicas. Las mujeres pueden incluso habérselo metido en la cabeza. Sé un hombre" puede haber sido, metafóricamente, lo que Eva pronunció en el momento crítico en el jardín del Edén.

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  Hombres, Jardín, Edén

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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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 an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

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  Religious, Mean, Science

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• 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 advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

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  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

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  Believe, Animal, Political

  Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett (1994). “The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature”, p.183, Taylor & Francis

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• 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 slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

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  Gun, Austerity, Path

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• 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 needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

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  Powerful, Equality, Suffering

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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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 whatever is intact.

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  Art, Use, Advertising

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• La risa es una emoción independiente, tremendamente importante y escabrosa.

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  Laughter, Independent, Important

  "Contemporary Verse". Book by Kenneth Allott, 1948.

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