14 Quotes About Avant Garde

Avant-garde is a type of art that tries to create something new. It’s often challenging and unconventional, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be appreciated or understood. Avant-garde is often misunderstood, though. While some people may associate the term with modern art, it actually has a much longer history than most people realize Read more

It comes from the French words avant and garde, which translate to “before guard.” The term was first used in 1795 and referred to movements of artists and groups of artists who were before the academic establishment of the time — they were considered radicals who were daring enough to think outside of the box.

May success chase and find you as you work hard.
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May success chase and find you as you work hard. Sola Kosoko
Cleverness in itself is useless. It’s like a peacock’s feathers...
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Cleverness in itself is useless. It’s like a peacock’s feathers — an extravagant display used by those who crave attention. The mind’s worth is revealed when clever solves real problems. Sola Kosoko
Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a...
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Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself. Sola Kosoko
Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.
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Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know. Sola Kosoko
The more you worry about your spending, the less you...
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The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity. Sola Kosoko
If I were a bird, I will have no feet.
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If I were a bird, I will have no feet. Sola Kosoko
I have nothing but a great head to offer. Is...
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I have nothing but a great head to offer. Is that enough? Sola Kosoko
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It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design. Michael Foley
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Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going back to something that isn't really clear: that avant-garde stuff is hard to read. I'm not defending it, I'm saying that stuff - this is gonna get very abstract - but there's a certain set of magical stuff that fiction can do for us. There's maybe thirteen things, of which who even knows which ones we can talk about. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists." Something else feels this way to someone else. So that the reader feels less lonely. David Foster Wallace
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As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size Sola Kosoko
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Tomorrow is not a day. It's an attitude. It's a symbol of the human spirit's desire to keep getting better. It's that curious mind that asks 'what's next'? Tomorrow is not ushered in by the cock's crow. Tomorrow dawns when today is better than yesterday...when we create something new. Sola Kosoko
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O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? Andrei Platonov
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A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me. Ramsay Burt