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Artists put as much vitality ...

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

I am an artist, and, through ...

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

To give up another person's l...

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

As a result of the feminist r...

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

God is, of course, a terrifyi...

God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Dying for an idea,' again, so...

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

I have been called a Rogue El...

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Laughter is the climax in the...

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

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

When we say 'science' we can ...

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 98 quotes

Life is art's rival and vice ...

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

In a period of such obsessing...

In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

A sort of war of revenge on t...

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 98 quotes

But let me have silence alway...

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 98 quotes

Men were only made into 'men'...

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.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

It is more comfortable for me...

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

If the world would only build...

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 98 quotes

Revolution today is taken for...

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Many great writers address au...

Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

The art of advertisement, aft...

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 98 quotes

I feel most at home in the Un...

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 98 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....