Quotes About Avant-garde

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Hrabia de G., typowy bohater Dalego, zwyk? mawia?:bale organizuje si? dla tych, których si? nie zaprasza. (...) Jajko na talerzu bez talerza na balu bez Dalego - to Dali.

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Light literature, along with light cinema and light art, give the reader and the viewer the comfortable impression that they are cultured, revolutionary, modern and in the vanguard without having to make the slightest intellectual effort. Culture that purports to be avant-garde and iconoclastic instead offers conformity in its worst forms: smugness and self-satisfaction.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.

Contemporary art hates you.

I see myself as a revolutionary, as a fashion rebel.

Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspire younger artists to do more. In the other, they inspire a mass of imitators who make the work respectable and exclusionary. The artists and their art become intellectual brand names.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

I mean, when we did 'Families At War,' on Saturday night prime time, people said we were mainstream then. But it wasn't in the least mainstream. The fact that we got that on BBC1 at that time with those ridiculous things, that's as mainstream as we get. We do what we do and people can think that it's mainstream or avant-garde.

The problem is that most people are average. This includes people who run universities, publishing companies, and the rewards system in the arts. Most people look at something that is not familiar and think it is wrong. Very few people are able to look at an authentic discovery and be grateful. For that context to exist there has to be a true avant-garde, a large, vibrant community of people willing to think, fuck, love, live, and create oppositionally.

Yra laik?, ir mano nuomone, mes dabar esam tokiuos laikuos, kai konservatiškumas, "atsilikimas" yra kur kas pažangiau, kur kas avangardiškiau, negu bet kokie viešai pripažinti "pažang?s" jud?jimai ar reiškiniai.

Great poets confront the limits of actual poems, tactically defeat or at least suspend that actuality, sometimes quit writing altogether, becoming celebrated for their silence; truly horrible poets unwittingly provide a glimmer of virtual possibility via the extremity of their failure; avant-garde poets hate poems for remaining poems instead of becoming bombs; and nostalgists hate poems for failing to do what they wrongly, vaguely claim poetry once did.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.