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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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Famous Wyndham Lewis Quotes

“If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.”

Ifs Way Should Political Politics Destiny Feminism Regard Uplifting Opponents Political Correctness Correctness Publicists

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.”

Ifs Men Notes Drunk Drunkenness Intoxicated

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“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

“Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.”

Ifs Bigs Successful Aim Holes Satire Target Blast Trajectory Singleness

Book:Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

Source: Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Done Body Science Religion Names White Evolution Breaths Fingers Teeth Evolve Organized Offensive Decency Tobacco Liquor Rite Coarse Forecasts

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.”

Ifs Done Would Be Age Today Names Rights Youth Divine Color Hundred Old Age True Colors

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“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.”

Ifs World Would Be Peace Perfect Trouble Trade Pursue Painter Plenty Abstract Temples Honored Machinery Sculptors

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?”

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

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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Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary CriticismRelated source material

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