I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist. — Lucinda Childs 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
“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?” — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg 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
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene 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
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde -… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a… — Jamake Highwater 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
In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years,… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
We will have to create an avant-garde… We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Well, the reason that I teach at Bard is because it's a largely avant-garde program. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. — Brian Eno 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
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed… — Igor Stravinsky 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
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
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