Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Wyndham Lewis — English Author born on November 18, 1882, died on March 07, 1957

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST. His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr, and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising The Childermass, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date... (wikipedia)

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

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.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis Quotes

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