Wyndham Lewis Quotes

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

True artists scorn nothing.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.