The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant. Wyndham Lewis More Quotes by Wyndham Lewis More Quotes From Wyndham Lewis Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. Wyndham Lewis black cutting song Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart. Wyndham Lewis clay essence sex 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. Wyndham Lewis passion objectivity art 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. Wyndham Lewis color rights names Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Wyndham Lewis sadism excess art All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. Wyndham Lewis opinion today men 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. Wyndham Lewis laziness relaxation men 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. Wyndham Lewis home country america It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. Wyndham Lewis rude running long Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. Wyndham Lewis car elephants bigs A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe 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. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government. Wyndham Lewis revenge running war 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. Wyndham Lewis advertising use art What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? Wyndham Lewis ifs islands But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music! Wyndham Lewis silence eye mind Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. Wyndham Lewis taken today dull Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair. Wyndham Lewis responsibility god men 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. Wyndham Lewis would-be perfect peace When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon. Wyndham Lewis religious science mean 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. Wyndham Lewis destiny political uplifting Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? Wyndham Lewis dying sound ideas
