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
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
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