Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few? Wyndham Lewis More Quotes by Wyndham Lewis More Quotes From Wyndham Lewis Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? Wyndham Lewis dyingsoundideas I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. Wyndham Lewis voyageseyeartist The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. Wyndham Lewis arbitraryclothesideas People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. Wyndham Lewis overwhelmedjudgementpeople Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! Wyndham Lewis stupidmindart Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. Wyndham Lewis spaintidesstrong Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. Wyndham Lewis representativeslaughtertragedy To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease. Wyndham Lewis giving-upsuicidelove 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. Wyndham Lewis mannerspeopleart For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. Wyndham Lewis adequatequeensfirsts Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. Wyndham Lewis laughterindependentimportant We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace. Wyndham Lewis paceagemen The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. Wyndham Lewis rightsperfectmen Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. Wyndham Lewis chiefsconstructionutopia 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. Wyndham Lewis satiretargetsuccessful God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open. Wyndham Lewis bangsmindreality Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire. Wyndham Lewis satireobjective-truthobjectives 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. Wyndham Lewis notesdrunkmen Life is art's rival and vice versa. Wyndham Lewis rivalsvicesart In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. Wyndham Lewis
