Avant Garde Quotes - Page 4

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

  Hakim Bey

  Garden

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• 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.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

  Johnny Weir

  Boys, Cereal, Special

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• Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Moving, Support

  Martin Filler (2007). “Makers of Modern Architecture”, New York Review of Books

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• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

  Andrew Sarris

  America, Today, Film

  "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Religious, Art

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

  Ferran Adria

  Innovation, Polemics

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• There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  War, Three, Polish

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

  Coco Chanel

  Past, Style

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• The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

  Ferran Adria

  Expression, Cooking, Finest

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• It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

  Michael Foley

  Art, Design, Trying

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Passion, Careers, Trying

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• Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Healthy, Return

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

  John Walford

  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

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• The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Creating, Trying

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

  Michael Scott

  Art, Might, Lasts

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• I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Want, Hips

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?

  Eugene Ionesco

  Mean, Theatre, Doe

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• I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Artist, Unique, Ideas

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