“There is nothing for it today, if you have an appetite for the beautiful, but to create new beauty You can no longer nourish yourself upon the past; its stock is exhausted, the Past is nowhere a reality. The only place where it is a reality is in time, certainly not in space. So the mental world of time offers a compensating principle.
From this devastating alternative – the creation of new beauty – most people shrink in horror. ‘Create!’ they exclaim. ‘As though it were not already difficult enough to live’ – But it is questionable if even bare life is possible, denuded of all meaning. And the meaning put into it by millennial politics of the current type is as unsubstantial as a mist on a Never-Never landscape.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. XVI, p. 83.
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