What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

~ Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes 1980 Art Avant Garde Confidence Culture David Foster Wallace Ebullience Idealism Irony Meta Modernism Metaphor Post Ironic Postmodernism Shia Lebouf

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

~ Morrissey

Morrissey 1980 Art Avant Garde Music Pop Culture Rock The 80S

It's telepathy, over.

~ Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon 1980 Aura Cowboy Dale Flash Gordon Space Telepathy Walkie Talkie

If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it’s not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into the breaking waves of an ocean of blood, and either we will climb out together and walk away.

~ Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy 1980 Intimacy Marge Piercy