The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was. — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the… — Stuart Hamm Copy Share Image
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I… — Roger Glover Copy Share Image
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well. — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“Key traits are a large x-height, strict geometry, and the infamous leaning letters and ligatures that allow extra tight fitting words. These… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
“Last Saturday night I was in a club on the South Side of Chicago listening to live rock music and talking to… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
“It was the excitement, the richness of the whole experience, the mixture of pleasure and danger and freedom and the sun. You… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image