We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko 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
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse 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
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
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
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
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the… — Stuart Hamm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I… — Roger Glover Copy Share Image
X' had a more avant garde approach to the way it was put together, and the camera direction was more modern and… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than… — Nas 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
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is… — Lee Hall 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
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
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
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well. — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis 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
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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone; their clean hearts are soapstone. Their small sorrows are for children alone. And… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image