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“If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age”

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Author:Karel Appel

“We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.”

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Author:Jacques Delors

“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.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.”

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Author:Christian Siriano

“I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“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.”

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Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“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.”

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Author:Michael Eisner

“Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.”

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Author:Dan Graham

“I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.”

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Author:Blixa Bargeld

“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.”

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Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“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.”

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Author:Adrien Brody

“There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.”

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Author:Bruno Heller

“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.”

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Author:Michael Haneke