Avant-garde Quotes - page 3

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. (Roy Harper)
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. View quote
Adrien Brody
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. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory. View quote
Yoko Ono
The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing. View quote
Vangelis
We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde. View quote
Jacques Delors
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world. View quote
Frank Gehry
The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense. View quote
David Mamet
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 out there. View quote
Johnny Weir
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. View quote
Nicolas Cage
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. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The time has probably come to admit that the notion of an avant-garde is no longer useful in discussing contemporary literature. How can there be an avant-garde without a mainstream? Avant-garde de quoi? one must ask. Establishment institutions - universities, museums, foundations, commercial galleries, even the state - have embraced the idea of experimental art for so long that the avant-garde is now a safely domesticated concept, just another traditional style. (Dana Gioia)
Avant-garde art has become habitual, a dead letter with little spiritual consequence, however materially refined. View quote
Donald Kuspit
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. View quote
Brian Greene
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules and brush the edge of acceptability in the search for solutions. View quote
Brian Greene
I've rediscovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, that can't add, that can't work from a verbalized concept, that doesn't care about stylish notation, that makes melodies that have pitch and rhythm, that doesn't know anything about zen eternity and gets bored and changes, that isn't worried about being commercial or avant-garde or serial or any other little category. Beauty is enough. View quote
Beth Anderson
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. View quote
Michael Haneke
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. View quote
Seamus Heaney
This is a whole universe I can dive into - and for me, it was very avant-garde, and expressive and kind of from a complete different planet to everything else that you see from the eighties ... it's like she was definitely out their on her own. ... She seems to have an endless kind of ability to put herself in and with empathize with different characters and viewpoints. View quote
Kate Bush