Garde Quotes
70 quotes by 64 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
— Clement Greenberg
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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
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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
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There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
— Bruno Heller
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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
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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
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You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
— Michael Scott
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The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
— Ed Benguiat
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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.
— Unknown Author
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
— Brian Greene
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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
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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
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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
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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
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