George Brecht/new York Avant-garde

Famous quotes containing the words brecht, york, avant-garde:

    “Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear—
    And he shows them pearly white—
    Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear—
    And he keeps it out of sight.”
    —Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

    “New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)