The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.