Avant Garde Quotes - Page 2

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

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.

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.

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.

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

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

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 his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

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.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

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.