As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
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 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
“[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?” — Carlton Mellick III 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
“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
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
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
X' had a more avant garde approach to the way it was put together, and the camera direction was more modern and… — Ti West Copy Share Image
