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.
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire. - Wyndham Lewis
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
- 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
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…
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. - Wyndham Lewis
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
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.
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up. - Wyndham Lewis
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
(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…
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…
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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