avant-garde quotes

Close by the Hudson, inThe iron palaces of Art glare down On such as, wandering in the streets below, Perambulate in glamorous SoHo, A spot acclaimed by savant and by bard As forcing chamber of the Avant-Garde.

- Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
MANHATTAN'S TOWN, 1984  'The SoHoiad', in the NewYork Review of Books.

The one thing constant in a changing world is the avant- garde.

- Louis Jouvet
Attributed.

There is no avant-garde: only some people a bit behind.

- Edgar Vare'  se
Attributed.