Quotes About Avant-garde

Yo soy el único poeta de este siglo.

In 2001, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc), an avant-garde architecture school that has produced some of the prominent architects in the country, relocated to the Artists District

When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music serves a greater purpose, and that showed me a whole other side to spiritual jazz, one which you can hear in the music - the gospel and blues feel, the soul that's embedded into the more avant-garde records.

It's important to be unconventional.

I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.

I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

Naturally, underground music often gravitates toward experimentation and the abstract. That's understandable, and more often than not, it feels great to dive into a difficult album and swim a few laps.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.

I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.

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

Neil and I have always been big fans of drag, emerging theater, and anything that is really 'out there' in terms of performance.

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

Nadunisi Naaigal' is new age Tamil cinema. I have tried to break the rules of regular cinema with this film.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

The public doesn't want new music.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

We had no interest in making a traditional sports movie.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

Die Avantgarde auf allen Gebieten besteht aus den Einsamen, den Freundlosen, den Uneingeladenen. Jeglicher Fortschritt kommt von den Unbeliebten.

I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.