There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking… — Michael Eisner 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
I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me… — M.I.A 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
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy. — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. — Jasmine Guinness 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
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama 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 think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw 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
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
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
