Avant Garde famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
-- Andrew Sarris -
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 lot of avant garde things.
-- Andy Partridge -
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!
-- Anne Rice -
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
-- Brian Greene -
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
-- Bruno Heller -
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.
-- Clement Greenberg -
The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
-- Ed Benguiat -
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
-- Edmund White -
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
-- Ferran Adria -
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
-- Ferran Adria -
In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
-- Ferran Adria -
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? These are the kind of questions we are asking ourselves. So the new scenario will allow them to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.
-- Ferran Adria -
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.
-- Gunther Schuller -
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
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 this time.
-- Henry Flynt -
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
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 -
The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.
-- Jurgen Habermas -
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
-- Marc Ribot -
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.
-- Martin Filler -
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
-- Matthew Shipp -
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 -
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 syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.
-- Patrice Pavis -
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 never forgot him.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson -
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
-- Robert Hughes -
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.
-- Robert Wyatt -
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 -
There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
-- W. H. Auden -
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 -
My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.
-- Chris Hegedus -
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.
-- Eddy de Clercq -
For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.
-- Jillian Hervey -
I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.
-- Linda Perhacs -
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.
-- Lucinda Childs -
Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.
-- Tracey Moffatt -
Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.
-- Violante Placido -
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
-- Roy Harper -
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
-- J. C. Chandor
