Avant garde Quotes · Page 3

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

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

— Jonathan Krisel

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

— Amor Towles

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

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

— David Mamet

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

— John Cage

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

— Ravi Shankar

I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have…

— David W. Marsden

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

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

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

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative…

— Martin Filler

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize…

— Archie Shepp

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

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

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

— Ravi Shankar

“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,…

— Ramsay Burt

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new…

— Jennifer Stone

Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,…

— C. D. Innes

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a…

— Archie Shepp

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in…

— Zaha Hadid

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

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

— Ferran Adria

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

— Nas

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

“Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A”

— Saira Viola

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

— Andrew Sarris

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

— Neville Marriner

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

— Faye Dunaway

“The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at”

— Dean Cavanagh

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

— Ennio Morricone

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

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— Roy Harper

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Bruno Heller