Avant garde Quote by Alain Robbe-Grillet

“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity in the…

— Martin Jay

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits…

— Peter Thomas Bauer

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature.…

— Italo Calvino

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out…

— Mark O'Connell

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds,…

— Madame de Stael

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Concealing, therefore, their pestilent doctrine by their specious and flattering discourse, they circumvent the more simple-minded and such as are open to fraud, nor…

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

“We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.”

— Ambrose Bierce