Wyndham Lewis Quotes

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

~ Wyndham Lewis

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

~ Wyndham Lewis

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

~ Wyndham Lewis

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

~ Wyndham Lewis

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

~ Wyndham Lewis

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

~ Wyndham Lewis

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

~ Wyndham Lewis