No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at

The avant-garde of anything, never won any popularity contests....

AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE

Make the stage an actor
Make an actor the stage.

Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.