Avant garde Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Lucinda Childs

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

— Kenneth Koch

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his deformation of…

— Arnold Hauser

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

— Pablo Picasso

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

— Franz Kafka

“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and began making…

— Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

— John Hurt

“Picasso has magical eyes. He sees the world so differently than we do, but he is able to make us understand what he sees.…

— Robert Sharenow