Avant Garde Quotes - Page 3

• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.

  Stefan Themerson

  Art, Eye, Exercise

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• I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

  Roy Harper

  Age, Jazz, Modern

  "Roy Harper: soundtrack of my life" by Leah Harper, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Feelings, Connections

  "60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons". Interview with Graeme Green, metro.co.uk. July 18, 2017.

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• Everything changes but the avant-garde.

  Paul Valery

  Things Change

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• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  M.I.A.

  Teaching, College, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Dancer, Doe

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

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• There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Book, San Francisco, Tape

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, Design, Sculpture

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Character, Design, Dutch

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.

  Denise Duhamel

  Book, Cutting, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

  Pat Metheny

  Country, Rocks, Political

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.

  Jillian Hervey

  Names, Band, Lions

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Beautiful, Art, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

  Roger Glover

  Rocks, Interesting, Bored

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

  Sergio Leone

  America, People, Innovation

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Opinion

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• 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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Sometimes, Easy

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

  Ferran Adria

  People, Important, Cuisine

  "Ferran Adrià Discusses His Future". Interview with Sara Bonisteel, www.epicurious.com.

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• I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Thinking, People, East

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.

  Violante Placido

  Hollywood, Tools, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Years, Boston

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

  Tracey Moffatt

  Artist, White, Aboriginal

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• Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Fashion, Inspiration, Perspective

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• I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

  Lucinda Childs

  Artist, Kind, Didactic

  Source: www.kcet.org

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