Quotes by Avant Garde 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 natural-elementsavant-gardeimagination Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. Mason Cooley avant-gardecareart I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. Matthew Shipp avant-gardejazzhatred The avant-garde is now stranded in the past. Mason Cooley strandedavant-gardepast 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 avant-gardegeniusthinking 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 avant-gardehip-hopwant Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. Neville Marriner avant-gardetodayyears I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. Nicolas Cage avant-gardefantasyfiction 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 avant-gardewhy-notart Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual. Patrice Pavis avant-gardetheatrecharacter 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 avant-gardetoessong 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 avant-gardedadguy Everything changes but the avant-garde. Paul Valery avant-gardethings-change It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde. Phyllis McGinley avant-gardehard 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 avant-gardeyesterdaytoday 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 avant-gardeguyideas 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 avant-gardecultureart Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism. Robert Wyatt avant-gardepeoplethinking I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. Roy Harper avant-gardejazzage 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 avant-gardeablesaid«1234»
