Quotes About Avant-garde

I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

London Fashion Week is always an exciting time because of the way it pushes boundaries, giving us a glimpse of what the future could look like.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.