"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

#Art Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.”
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.”

Source : "Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expressio". Book by Jeffery Howe, 2001.
“I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.”
“Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.”
“The love of fame puts spurs to the mind”
“I think that if you just kind of try to throw together a sketch show, but you don't have any real vision for what you want to do with the sketch, I don't think your chances are very good. You know, "Let's just have a sketch show!" You have to do something different with it; you have to reinvent that form every so often.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]”

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