| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30230 |
| QUOTATION: | An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912), Romanian–born French playwright. repr. In Notes and Counter Notes (1962). “A Talk about the Avant-Garde,” lecture, Helsinki (June 1959). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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