Avant Garde Quotes

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I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage
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, itâ€™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
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
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
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of… — Alan J. Pakula
We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde. — Jacques Delors
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and… — Christian Siriano

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