Avant Garde Quotes - Page 2

• The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

  Ferran Adria

  Cutting, Years, Year End

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• No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Fashion, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Important, Looks

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Genius, Lines

  "Former Disney chief Eisner touts benefits of sharing". Reuters interview, www.reuters.com. September 26, 2010.

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• 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.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.

  David Starkey

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Why Not, Able

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

  Bruno Heller

  Visionaries, World, Clock

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• What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

  Adrien Brody

  Thinking, Special You, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.

  Blixa Bargeld

  Running, Military, Mean

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• 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.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Dad, Guy, Kind

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• We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Yesterday, Today, Novelty

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Art, Rocks

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• Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Taken, Next Steps

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Guy, Stories

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

  Colin Firth

  Risk, Would Be, Actors

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Able, Said

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Fashion, Hot, Speed

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• I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Toes, Lines

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Hard

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Way, Think Of You

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

  Hakim Bey

  Garden

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• The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

  Zaha Hadid

  Adventure, Spirit, Belief

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