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.

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.