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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.”

Voice Unique Harmony Adore Julia Avant Garde Timbre

Author:Linda Perhacs

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

Mean Changed Areas Never Change Avant Garde

Author:Jeff Tweedy

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

Ifs Trying Wanted Artist Interest Avant Garde

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“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.”

Thinking Art Beautiful Form Difficult Levels Pieces Emotional Music Is Implicit Avant Garde

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“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.”

Thinking Different Tradition Pops Boundaries Rhythm Classic Pushing Concrete Cages Avant Garde Pushing Back

Author:Anne Dudley

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

Kind Artist Avant Garde Didactic

Author:Lucinda Childs

“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.”

World Mean Doe Building Designer Decent Dancer Architect Avant Garde

Author:Frank Gehry

“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.”

Knows Kind Littles Wanted Names Left Band Lions Babe Avant Garde Blondie

Author:Jillian Hervey

“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.”

Country Facts Faces Political Term Worst Rocks Music Is Jazz Western Musical Pops Code Discussion Etc Meaningless Avant Garde

Author:Pat Metheny

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

Wells Sometimes Character Design Very Good Dues Experimentation Dutch Avant Garde Holland

Author:Eddy de Clercq

“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.”

Firsts Art Influence Modern Design Particular Painting Engaged Representatives Sculpture Avant Garde Intersections

Author:Zaha Hadid

“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.”

Knows Want Book Tape Centre San Francisco 1960s Avant Garde Documentation Counterculture

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“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.”

People America Innovation Sensations Avant Garde

Author:Sergio Leone

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

Years Behinds New York All Time Boston Avant Garde

Author:Paul Laffoley

“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.”

People Thinking Hard Film Teach Audience Figures East Core Appeals Establishment Coast Avant Garde East Coast Hard Core

Author:Lawrence Jordan

“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.”

Believe Sometimes Easy Mistaken Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

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

Opinion Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“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.”

Said Able Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.”

Ifs Trying Littles States Modern Dangerous Painting Painter Dealer Scrap Pretext Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.”

Thinking Way Think Of You Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Looks Important Our Relationship Scandal Think Of You Avant Garde

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“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.”

People Knows Want Kind Stills Artist Courses Rocks Fields Jazz Pops Territory Protective Avant Garde

Author:Yoko Ono

“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.”

World Art Artist Hero Capitalism Soup Imagery My Hero Art World Avant Garde Warhol Scorned Gaudy

Author:Camille Paglia

“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.”

Littles Bits Boys Special Little Bit Avant Garde Cereal

Author:Johnny Weir

“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.”

Art Able Moving Form Support Depends Innovation Conservative Experiments Architect Establishment Patron Avant Garde

Book:Makers of Modern Architecture

Source: Makers of Modern Architecture

“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.”

Ifs Knows Made Imagination Natural Know How Building Materials Products Involved Elements Method Architecture Traditional Architect Conventional Components Avant Garde Natural Elements

Author:Martin Filler

“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.”

Art Stories Directors Theater Scripts Latter Items Avant Garde

Book:2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Avant-garde is French for bullshit”

Art Bullshit Avant Garde

Author:John Lennon

“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.”

Way Art Culture Belief Lost Metaphor Noble Plenty Territory Idealism Avant Garde Disinterested

Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Firsts Mean Eye Fun Half Ears Busy Excited Enthusiasm Being Yourself Know Yourself Fever Without Love Avant Garde Zest Gusto Not Being Yourself

Book:Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.”

I Can Fiction Fantasy Horror Performances Science Fiction Because I Can Avant Garde

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”

Humans Inspiration Human Beings Space Rooms Architecture Ass Bad Ass Badass Avant Garde Famous Artist Spatial Architecture And Design Architecture Design Built Environment

Book:El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts

Source: El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts

“More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.”

Past Birth Rejection Zero Originality Literal Avant Garde Dissolution Ground Zero

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

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

Today America Film Makers Daring Avant Garde Hitchcock America Today

Author:Andrew Sarris

“Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.”

Life Remember Life Is Artist Rooms Watches Uncomfortable Bows Life Is Like Avant Garde

Author:Valerie Cruz

“Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

Way Want Today Past Wall Prison Allowing Prisoner Composer Continuing Taboo Escaping Avant Garde

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.”

Years Today Modern Music Is Standards Composer Avant Garde Continuum

Author:Neville Marriner

“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.”

Thinking Knows Years Age Lasts Born Religious Modern Revolution Six Prophet Veils Deep Down Avant Garde

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”

“The avant-garde makes more sense to me.”

Avant Garde

Author:John Cale

“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.”

Art Form Values Religious Century Expression Dancing Dance Corporate Ritual Avant Garde Avant Garde Art

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.”

Innovation Avant Garde Polemics

Author:Ferran Adria

“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.”

War Three Remains Polish Avant Garde

Author:Witold Gombrowicz

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

Past Style Avant Garde

Author:Coco Chanel

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

Expression Cooking Finest Menus Avant Garde

Author:Ferran Adria

“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.”

Trying Art Design Produce Products Originals Accidents Intense Impulse Something New Overwhelming Conventions Originality Avant Garde

Book:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it”

People Has Beens Real Play Culture Taken Rocks Scene Folks Noise Aspiration Mainstream Punk Replaced Punk Rock Avant Garde Mainstream Culture

Author:Thurston Moore

“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.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Film Passion Careers First Time Childlike Avant Garde

Author:Alan J. Pakula

“Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”

Art Art Is Painter Simplify Avant Garde Famous Artist

Book:Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967

Source: Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967

“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”

Eye Vision Perception Painter Remove Veils Sculptors Avant Garde

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

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