Wyndham Lewis

“By the artist's intervention, the sublime is brought down to earth and given a concrete form.”

“The great artist is the slave of his ideas.”

“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.”

“The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season.”

“Satire is the greatest weapon, the almighty battering-ram of art.”

“We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized.”

“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail.”

“Intellect is the art of seeing things as they are.”

“The crowd is the eternal tragic figure.”

“The earth has become a tight-closed fist.”

“Apes of God: that is what we are, scuttling about the ruins of the future.”

“Action is the eldest child of thought.”

“Art is the expression of an enormous preference.”