Avant Quotes
76 quotes by 71 authors
-
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
— Nicolas Cage
-
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
— Harold Rosenberg
-
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.
— Rosalind E. Krauss
-
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
— Andrew Sarris
-
Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.
— Valerie Cruz
-
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way…
— Gyorgy Ligeti
-
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
-
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and…
— Marjane Satrapi
-
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
— Marc Ribot
-
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
— John Cale
-
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be…
— Dieter Rams
-
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at…
— Henry Flynt
-
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in.…
— Lukas Foss
-
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of…
— Jamake Highwater
-
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
— Ferran Adria
-
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.
— Witold Gombrowicz
-
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,
— Coco Chanel
-
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
— Ferran Adria
-
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality…
— Michael Foley
-
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has…
— Thurston Moore
Who Wrote These Avant Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 76 Avant Quotes, led by these top contributors: