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Wyndham Lewis Quotes
«Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
advocated, compromising, disgusting, immaculate, manipulator, praised
«''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
«With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public',' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
advertised, agency, caption, captions, coarsely, colossal, creeping, disguised, familiarity, homeliness, manufactured, materialistic, monstrous, propaganda, sentiment, sickly, sweet tooth, The Agency, The Sweet, tooth, unreal
«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.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisement, American art, intact, introduced, lavish, lavished, lavishing, of value, superlative, superlatives
«The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of ''decency'.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
attended, coarse, consequent, established religion, evolves, fume, fumes, hierarchically, liquors, organized religion, puritanical, rites, taint, tobacco
«Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
Belgium, better half, chivalrous, Citizen of, evolved, Highly Evolved, respecter, self-determination, The Claim
«Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.»
«No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.»
«A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.»
«Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a ''revolutionary'' review, or read a ''revolutionary'' speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly ''revolutionary'.' What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!»