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Witold Gombrowicz has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you…
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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
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I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew…
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A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its…
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There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains…
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more…
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It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity…
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If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;…
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Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
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Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
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I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
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More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero,…
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Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must…
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from…
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I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were…
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Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
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The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
— John Cale
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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…
— Henry Flynt
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
— Jamake Highwater
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
— Ferran Adria
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