Avant garde Quote by Eugene Ionesco

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

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

More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite…

— Patrice Pavis

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

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

— Domenico Dolce

The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition…

— Thomas Paine

Government of man by man in every form is oppression.

— Anonymous

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As…

— Albert Camus

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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