Quotes About Avant-garde

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.

Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones was path-breaking in many ways.

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the next to the next and never return.

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

I feel like the music I'm doing is very experimental and very radical.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Ram Gopal Varma cannot have a genre at all. He creates genres.

The majority of people probably think that Damien Hirst is avant-garde. Look at the amount of people who say 'What is this rubbish? Who is running our galleries? Why are they spending all this money on the avant-garde?' That doesn't make it avant-garde to me.

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

One must be absolutely modern.

Il faut être absolument moderne

I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.