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
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
I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories… — Richard Linklater 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
But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend… — Colin Firth 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
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we… — Jonas Mekas 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
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
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than… — Nas Copy Share Image
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 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
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
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch… — Valerie Cruz Copy Share Image
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero,… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Actually I don't watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
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
It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility.… — Martin Donovan 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
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
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
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 to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde… — Linda Perhacs Copy Share Image
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