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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
— Wyndham Lewis
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
— Wyndham Lewis
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
— Wyndham Lewis
Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.
— Wyndham Lewis
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
— Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
— Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
— Wyndham Lewis
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
— Wyndham Lewis
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
— Wyndham Lewis
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
— Wyndham Lewis
The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.
— Wyndham Lewis
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
— Wyndham Lewis
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
— Wyndham Lewis
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
— Wyndham Lewis
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
— Wyndham Lewis
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
— Wyndham Lewis
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
— Wyndham Lewis
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
— Wyndham Lewis
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.
— Wyndham Lewis
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
— Wyndham Lewis
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
— Wyndham Lewis
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.
— Wyndham Lewis
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
— Wyndham Lewis
An artist should be as impartial as God.
— Wyndham Lewis
Life is art's rival and vice versa.
— Wyndham Lewis