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Wyndham Lewis, a British painter, writer, and art critic, was born on November 18, 1882, in London and died on March 7, 1957. He is known for his unique artistic style and theoretical contributions, being a significant figure in British modernist art.

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“Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.”

Art Excess Sadistic Sadism Harshness

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”

Mind Art Earth Stupid Revolutionary Renewal Stale

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“Life is art's rival and vice versa.”

Art Life Is Vices Rivals Vice Versa

Book:Tarr

Source: Tarr

“Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.”

Art Passion Depends Art Is Roots Practicals Objectivity Undertakings Partisans

Book:The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

Source: The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

“If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.”

People Ifs Art Figures Function Absurd Instance Manners Sensibility

Book:The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

Source: The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

“To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.”

May Mean Art Book Ends Reason Body Life Is Strong Talking Our Lives Progress Movement Factors Works Of Art

Book:Wyndham Lewis the Artist

Source: Wyndham Lewis the Artist

“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.”

World Art War Ends Lost War Of The Worlds World War I World Politics

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“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!”

Mind Art Earth Stupid Revolution Speech Revolutionary Reviews Rebellious Stale

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“Art is the expression of an enormous preference.”

Art Expression Art Is Enormous Preference

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“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.”

Art Use Values Our Lives Standards Advertising Advertisements Superlatives

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.”

Art Serious Models Art Is Paint Smell Oil Italian Exclusive Trousers Corduroy

Book:Tarr

Source: Tarr

About the Author

Born: November 18, 1882
Died: March 7, 1957
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 81

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The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His WorkRelated source material

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Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and playsRelated source material

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Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary CriticismRelated source material

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