Quotes About Avant-garde

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

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.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

I don't like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can't stand them.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Si lo que hago suena razonable a la mayoría de la gente, entonces no estoy trabajando en un espacio lo bastante creativo e innovador!»

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

My films are completely offbeat.

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

I don't use old music.

I'm not old-fashioned.

Impressionists, Cubists, and Surrealists who had stunned the world between 1870 and 1960 by entirely redefining art. VAN GOGH… SEURAT… PICASSO… MUNCH… MATISSE… MAGRITTE… KLIMT… KANDINSKY… JOHNS… HOCKNEY… GAUGUIN… DUCHAMP… DEGAS… CHAGALL… CÉZANNE… CASSATT… BRAQUE… ARP… ALBERS…

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.