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
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
We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos,… — Ferran Adria 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
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist. — Tracey Moffatt 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
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
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill. — Ravi Shankar 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
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce 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
Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to… — Michael Haneke 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 room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky 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
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,… — Camille Paglia 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
