Quotes About Avant-garde

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd say 'pop music' and conjure up images of the Sweet, or Marc Bolan. That, to me, can be avant-garde still.

We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.

I really like incorporating noise music into pop.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Unthinkable clothing

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes

Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

The New Yorker will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque.

He knew what was going on in painting in this country in the Fifties and Sixties. Abstract Expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimal, Op-Art, Less-is-More, Flat, all the avant-garde idiocies. But Maitland paid no attention to it. He went his way. Traditional. Representational. If he painted a tit, it was a tit.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

I want to make a shop that's unlike any that already exists.

Basically, I want the most unnatural look possible.

My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible.

My way of directing is definitely unorthodox, definitely unconventional.