Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

- Wyndham Lewis

An artist should be as impartial as God.

- 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…

- 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…

- Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

- Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

- Wyndham Lewis

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodist…

- 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…

- Wyndham Lewis

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

- Wyndham Lewis