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.
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. - Wyndham Lewis
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
- Wyndham Lewis
An artist should be as impartial as God. - Wyndham Lewis
An artist should be as impartial as God.
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 conclusio… - Wyndham Lewis
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 conclusio…
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 partic… - Wyndham Lewis
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 partic…
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire. - Wyndham Lewis
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. - Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodist… - Wyndham Lewis
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodist…
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up. - Wyndham Lewis
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian m… - Wyndham Lewis
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian m…
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