Quotes About Avant-garde

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

I'm not interested in pop art.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.

They're all gone. Truffaut, Resnais, Antonioni, De Sica, Kazan. At least Godard is still alive, but he always was a nonconformist

Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

I love doing supercrazy, avant-garde but still stunning looks.

Karlheinz Stockhausen.

I love a black wedding dress.