Artist Quote by Mason Cooley

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

— Anonymous

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

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

— Hakim Bey

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

— Vangelis

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated…

— Camille Paglia

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory…

— Robert Hughes

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

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

— Domenico Dolce

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

— Lucinda Childs

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 majority of people probably think that Damien Hirst is avant-garde. Look at the amount of people who say 'What is this rubbish? Who…

— Vic Reeves