Quotes About Avant-garde

What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.

Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody and so I think this is why I've shared my music, why they can have also pleasure, not only an interesting structure.

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.

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

But there were also men of far greater value who were drawn to Cubism, men whose language was paint or sculpture: among them Léger, Picabia, Delaunay, La Fresnaye, Le Fauconnier, Dufy for a while and Friesz, Lhote, Kisling, Herbin of the Bateau-Lavoir, Survage, Marcoussis, Diego Rivera, Mondrian, Archipenko, Brancusi, Lipchitz, and perhaps the most important of them all, the three brothers Jacques Villon, Duchamp-Villon, and Marcel Duchamp.

It has been said that in the "Jeune fille à la mandoline" Picasso was getting the best of several worlds, and certainly he makes use both of immediate and of remote symbols in what even the most sullen and dogged opponents of Cubism confess to be a

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

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

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.