{"quotes":[{"text":"What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.","author":"Robert Hughes","tags":["1980","art","avant-garde","confidence","culture","david-foster-wallace","ebullience","idealism","irony","meta-modernism","metaphor","post-ironic","postmodernism","shia-lebouf"],"id":38475,"author_id":"Robert+Hughes"},{"text":"Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?","author":"Hugo Ball","tags":["art","avant-garde","dada","dadaism","manifesto"],"id":56329,"author_id":"Hugo+Ball"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ramsay Burt","tags":["avant-garde","ballet","dance","experimental","gender","progressive"],"id":78281,"author_id":"Ramsay+Burt"},{"text":"Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself.","author":"Sola Kosoko","tags":["avant-garde","famousquotes","goodreads","inspirational","motivational","quoteaddicts","quotegeeks","quoteme","quoteoftheday","readersofinstagram","selfimprovement","success","writersofinstagram"],"id":108674,"author_id":"Sola+Kosoko"},{"text":"O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?","author":"Andrei Platonov","tags":["avant-garde","communism","irony","privilege","revolution"],"id":109003,"author_id":"Andrei+Platonov"},{"text":"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.","author":"John Cage","tags":["acceptance","avant-garde","modernism","novelty","populism"],"id":126612,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sola Kosoko","tags":["avant-garde","inspirational","life-and-living","motivational","rags-to-riches","self-improvement","success","tomorrow"],"id":135714,"author_id":"Sola+Kosoko"},{"text":"If I were a bird, I will have no feet.","author":"Sola Kosoko","tags":["avant-garde","inspirational","life-living","motivational","tomorrow"],"id":143214,"author_id":"Sola+Kosoko"},{"text":"Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.","author":"Sola Kosoko","tags":["avant-garde","famousquotes","goodreads","inspirational","motivational","quoteaddicts","quotegeeks","quoteme","quoteoftheday","readersofinstagram","selfimprovement","success","writersofinstagram"],"id":153491,"author_id":"Sola+Kosoko"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sola Kosoko","tags":["avant-garde","inspirational","life-and-living","motivational","tomorrow"],"id":186138,"author_id":"Sola+Kosoko"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}