Quotes About Avant-garde

I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

We are pioneers of creating a new genre of metal.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

I wanna be remembered as someone who broke all the norms.

I wanna make weird stuff.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

No studio picks up the phone after seeing 'Dogtooth' and goes, like, 'We have the next superhero movie.' Though if one did, that would be an interesting studio to work with.

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

I like clothes that feel fresh and surprising.

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

My music is not lovely.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.