Quotes About Avant-garde

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

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.

So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.

My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde.

There were others of course - The Velvet Undergound, the Doors- who took risks in the 1960s, when no one knew where any of it was going. Before them were the Beats and before the Beats the avant-garde artists, the futurists, Fluxus, and before that, the blues, outsider music, a mourning for what's expected but will never happen, so why not dance and play and forget for a few moments that we're all alone anyway?

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The matched pair of avant-garde rich were inspecting a work of art that was made up of shredded bedsheets draped over a taxidermied cow standing with each hoof in a toilet.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

While architecture's sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture's Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style she pushed the envelope for the time.

I always felt independent of musical fashion.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

It is clear, for example, that many Americans did not like the idea of avant-garde art, especially in relation to women's fashion. Many people were particularly indignant about what seemed to them the deliberate obliteration of sexual attractiveness, which they identified with the tightwaisted dress and the hourglass figure.