Avant garde Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

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

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 idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the…

— Robert Morgan

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

— Lucinda Childs

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over…

— Grant H. Kester

I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's…

— Arnold Newman

“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

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

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

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

— Cornelia Parker