Wyndham Lewis Quotes

An account…of the decadence occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic inferno of insipidity and decay.

‘The Art of Being Ruled’ might be described from some points of view as an infernal Utopia.

Then down came the lid—the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: ‘a war to end war’. But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

It is to what I have called the Apes of God that I am drawing your attention—those prosperous mountebanks who alternately imitate and mock at and traduce those figures they at once admire and hate.

If you must go nowhere, step out.

Gertrude Stein’s prose song is a cold, black suet-pudding… of fabulously reptilian length.

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

When we say ‘science’ we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

‘Dying for an idea,’ again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?