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
Life is art's rival and vice versa.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Tarr
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
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
Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
"Inferior Religions"
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
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Rude Assignment