Avant garde Quotes · Page 3

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

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

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

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

Well, the reason that I teach at Bard is because it's a largely avant-garde program.

— Kelly Reichardt

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

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

— Pat Buchanan

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

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

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

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may…

— Sheila Heti

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde -…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and…

— Violante Placido

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

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this…

— J. C. Chandor

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For…

— Ferran Adria

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be…

— Michael Foley

“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

Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of…

— Stefan Themerson

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

“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

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV…

— Denise Duhamel

“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”…

— Gregory Sholette

“[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?”

— Carlton Mellick III

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

— Andrei Platonov

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

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

— Anne Rice

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

— Ferran Adria

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

— Jasmine Guinness

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”

— Matt Puchalski

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

— Riccardo Tisci

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

— Paul Laffoley

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry…

— Seamus Heaney

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

— Karel Appel

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir