Quotes About Avant-garde

The word that comes to my mind when I think of Kolkata's fashion is 'eclectic.'

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

I always thought that the Babys were five years ahead of everybody else, I really do.

I want a film which really hurts your eyes.

It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

I don't look very much at magazines or go to vintage stores.

Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Añadiré —Dalí me lo hizo observar— que los surrealistas eran guapos.

No matter what the cost, I wanted to stay a surrealist.

Collapsed roofs "hung at an angle and looked as if they were still sliding down, perpetually falling, like a waterfall." Leningrad now literally resembled one of the fractured Cubist landscapes of the 1920s avant-garde — or, as Ginzburg remarked, one of Vsevolod Meyerhold's stage sets.

Composers, too, wanted to celebrate Russia's new modernity. The most avant-garde among them now created pieces full of dark, knotted chords and thunderous declarations, or music like sculptures of crystal: sharp, hard structures with jutting spikes and dazzling surfaces.