Avant Garde Quotes - Page 5

• Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.

  Martin Filler

  Imagination, Natural Elements, Architecture

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• 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.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Art, Directors, Stories

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Culture, Noble

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.16, Vintage

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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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• I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Religious, Thinking, Years

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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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• My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

  Chris Hegedus

  Afternoon, Saws, Firsts

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Never Change, Changed

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

  Linda Perhacs

  Unique, Voice, Harmony

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Artist, Trying, Interest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.

  Archie Shepp

  Couple, Cutting, Thinking

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• I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

  George Lucas

  Character, Tone, Cinema

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• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Elements, Taste, Kind

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• Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Care, Modernism

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• There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Desire, Doe

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• People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

  Ferran Adria

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

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• The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Encounters, Landscape, Territory

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• We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Sports, Religious

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• Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

  Gunther Schuller

  Thinking, People, Radical

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, He Man, Share

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Pretending, Humans

  "Interview With The Vampire". Book by Anne Rice, 1976.

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• I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

  Edmund White

  Sincerity, Realism, Feels

  "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". The Review of Contemporary Fiction Interview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. Fall 1996.

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• The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Stranded

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• I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

  Matthew Shipp

  Hatred, Jazz, Imagine

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• The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Views, Literature

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.19, Beacon Press

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