WYNDHAM LEWIS QUOTES III

English author & painter (1882-1957)

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

The Art of Being Ruled

Tags: capitalism


Life is art's rival and vice versa.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Tarr

Tags: art


But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting--that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open--shut up the mind's eye--all will be music!

WYNDHAM LEWIS

One-way Song

Tags: silence


Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

"Inferior Religions"

Tags: laughter


Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

"The Family and Feminism", The Art of Being Ruled

Tags: feminism


One night Death left his card. I was not familiar with the name he chose, but the black mourning edge was deep. I flung it back. A thousand awakenings of violence visited me then.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Enemy of the Stars

Tags: death


Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Rude Assignment

Tags: truth