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.

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.