"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."

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Source : 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.

Wyndham Lewis

#Art Quotes #War Quotes #World Quotes

“What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.”
“Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.”
“After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.”
“All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”
“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”
“Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.”
“If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.”
“Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.”

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