Quotes About Avant-garde

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

It was so avant-garde that the fire alarm sounded for a good few minutes before the audience slowly began to realise that it wasn't part of the performance.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

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I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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

We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

bohemian proclivities

Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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.