Avant-Garde Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage
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
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
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming… — Robert Wyatt
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
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
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
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
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

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