Avant-Garde Quotes
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I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
Steven Soderbergh
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The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
Ed Benguiat
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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.
Blixa Bargeld