Quotes by Avant Garde Art is art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt simplify avant-garde art 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 special-you avant-garde thinking Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today. Andrew Sarris avant-garde today america It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things. Andy Partridge avant-garde stones hands I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it. Anne Dudley avant-garde different thinking Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! Anne Rice pretending vampire avant-garde Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it. Anton Chekhov avant-garde life-is firsts 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 avant-garde directors art Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. Brian Eno avant-garde research done Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Brian Greene avant-garde mathematics science There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network. Bruno Heller avant-garde visionaries world It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. Camille Paglia avant-garde hero art 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 avant-garde saws 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 avant-garde views art I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life. Coco Chanel avant-garde style past 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 avant-garde risk would-be The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense. David Mamet jingoism nonsense avant-garde The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde. Ed Benguiat avant-garde looks 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 avant-garde design character I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. Edmund White realism avant-garde sincerity 1234»
