Avant garde Quotes · Page 3

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.

— Nas

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

— Ferran Adria

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

— Alexander Rodchenko

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

— Hakim Bey

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

— Edmund White

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Herbert Marcuse

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being…

— Robert Morgan

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film…

— Lawrence Jordan

Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know…

— Adam West

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for…

— Frank Gehry

I think it's really important for the audience to feel connected, and when it's good it's this amazing, symbiotic relationship. I try…

— Thao Nguyen

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend…

— Colin Firth

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms…

— Richard Prince

I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to…

— Nicolas Cage

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds…

— Caroline Shaw

In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art…

— C. D. Innes

I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's…

— Eli Roth

I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still…

— Scott Walker

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in…

— Zaha Hadid

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a…

— Archie Shepp

Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,…

— C. D. Innes

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new…

— Jennifer Stone

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

— Camille Paglia

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

— Kamasi Washington

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

— Ferran Adria

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

— Paul Laffoley

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry…

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Karel Appel

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

— Jasmine Guinness

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”

— Matt Puchalski

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

— Riccardo Tisci

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?”

— Carlton Mellick III

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Lucinda Childs

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

— Jonathan Miller

“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

— Andrei Platonov