Avant garde Quotes · Page 2

“There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde.”

— Silvia Hartmann

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

— Ennio Morricone

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian…

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Roy Harper

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

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

— Tracey Moffatt

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

— Saira Viola

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

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the…

— Stuart Hamm

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

“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

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be…

— Michael Foley

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

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

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

“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,…

— Ramsay Burt

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

— Jennifer Stone

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

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

— Andrew Sarris

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

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

— Faye Dunaway

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

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

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

— David Mamet

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

— John Cage

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

— Ravi Shankar

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

— Karel Appel

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

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