When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance…

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

Well, the reason that I teach at Bard is because it's a largely avant-garde program.

— Kelly Reichardt

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It…

— Eugene Ionesco

There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know…

— Pauline Oliveros

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to…

— Violante Placido

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a…

— Patrice Pavis

“There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde.”

— Silvia Hartmann

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

— Marc Ribot

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”

— Matt Puchalski

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

— Ferran Adria

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So…

— Roger Glover