"People ask what the avant-garde is and whether it's finished. It isn't. There will always be one. The avant-garde is flexibility of mind and it follows like day the night from not falling prey to government and education. Without the avant-garde nothing would get invented."

- John Cage
Diary; How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)," from The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts (New York/London: Routledge, 2002), edited by Steven Johnson, pg. 128.