Avant Garde Quotes

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.

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.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

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.

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 caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

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.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

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.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

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.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.