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My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him… — Paul Thomas Anderson
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 genius. There's some… — Michael Eisner
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock… — Dan Graham
It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a… — Andy Partridge
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that… — John Walford
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays… — Richard Hofstadter
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get… — Adrien Brody
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network. — Bruno Heller
Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms. — Michael Haneke
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only… — Archie Shepp
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion. — Pierre Trudeau
Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes. — Henri Poincare
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott
The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde. — Ed Benguiat
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
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton
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
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz.… — Yoko Ono
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into… — Camille Paglia
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 little bit more… — 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 and slowly moving… — Martin Filler
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional… — Martin Filler

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