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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though… — Arthur C. Clarke
Avant-garde is French for bullshit — John Lennon
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping… — Ray Bradbury
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais? — Jasper Fforde
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. — Zaha Hadid
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. — Bjarke Ingels
When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was… — Jonas Mekas
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
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. — Camille Paglia
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it… — Richard Rogers
When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working… — Martin Donovan
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. — Jasmine Guinness
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done… — Harmony Korine
We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past. — Jose Andres Puerta
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music,… — Ryan Kavanaugh
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth… — Jane Badler
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me. — Damien Chazelle
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. — Matthew Shipp
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way… — Robert Morgan
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce
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
I'm really free-spirited about love and sexuality, which I think is apparent in my music and even the visuals, which are all very androgynous. But… — Lady Gaga
There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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