Avant garde Quotes · Page 2

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

— Phyllis McGinley

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

— Cornelia Parker

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

— Ferran Adria

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Anton Chekhov

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

— David Longstreth

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

— Bruno Heller

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

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

— John Cage

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any…

— Eugene Ionesco

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of…

— Nathan Oliveira

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

— Camille Paglia

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this…

— J. C. Chandor

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and…

— Violante Placido

Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a…

— Jane Badler

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos,…

— Ferran Adria

X' had a more avant garde approach to the way it was put together, and the camera direction was more modern and…

— Ti West

“I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar.…

— Don DeLillo

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV…

— Denise Duhamel

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are…

— Ray Bradbury

I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to…

— David Starkey

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional…

— Martin Filler

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being…

— Pat Metheny

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as…

— Ravi Shankar

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

— David Mamet

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Ferran Adria

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

— Amor Towles

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

— Jonathan Krisel

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

— Bat for Lashes

“The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at”

— Dean Cavanagh

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

— Faye Dunaway

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

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

— Neville Marriner

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

— Andrew Sarris

“Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A”

— Saira Viola

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

— Tracey Moffatt