Quotes About Avant-garde

Assemblage is the first home-grown California modern art.

For once in California there was an integration of art with avant-garde literature and music.

I worry that I am driven by a] basically vapid urge to be avant-garde and post structural and linguistically calisthenic. This is why I get very spiny when I think someone's suggesting this may be my root motive and character because I'm afraid it might be.

avant-garde , adj. This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind , including songs from the Empire Records soundtrack and an interval of nineteenth-century German poetry, recited with a lisp. What does avant-garde mean, anyway? I asked. I believe it translates as favor to your friends , you replied.

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

John was anti anything conventional.

Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.

The avant-garde is attitude, principle, set of activities, set of performances, articulatory forms, positive objects and processes.

The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

I dress a little strange. I dress a little theatrically.

I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.