Avant garde Quotes · Page 2

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

“The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.”

— David Mitchell

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

— Ed Benguiat

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

— Ferran Adria

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

“If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.”

— John Cage

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

— Ferran Adria

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

— Twyla Tharp

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

— Amor Towles

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

— Jonathan Krisel

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend…

— Colin Firth

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

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

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

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream…

— Thurston Moore

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as…

— Ravi Shankar

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

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional…

— Martin Filler

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty…

— Robert Hughes

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

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

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

— Jeff Tweedy

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

— El Lissitzky

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

— David Longstreth

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

— Bruno Heller

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a…

— Anton Chekhov

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

— Nicolas Cage

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian…

— Zaha Hadid

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

— Ennio Morricone