Avant Garde Quotes

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It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.