Avant garde Quote by Eugene Ionesco

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -…

— Edward Albee

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a…

— Patrice Pavis

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

— Jeff Tweedy

I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.

— Julia Holter

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ...…

— Jurgen Habermas

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at…

— Pat Metheny

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence --…

— Edward Albee

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

— Robert Lepage

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore…

— Anna Deavere Smith

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by…

— C. D. Innes