Avant Garde Quotes

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

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

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.

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

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

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.

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.

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.

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

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

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

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.

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

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

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

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

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.

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.

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.

For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.

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.

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

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

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

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

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

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

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

My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

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

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

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.

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

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

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

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.