Avant garde Quote by Anton Chekhov

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ...…

— Jurgen Habermas

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

— Domenico Dolce

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

— Vangelis

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being…

— Harmony Korine

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

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

— Herbert Marcuse

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a…

— Robert Wyatt

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade