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  • 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.

    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

    Art   Avant Garde   Care  
  • If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

    Art   Age   Avant Garde  
  • I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One of my dad's buddies was the avant-garde composer John Cage, so I picked up on that weird classical and eclectic music.

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

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

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

    "Former Disney chief Eisner touts benefits of sharing". Reuters interview, www.reuters.com. September 26, 2010.
  • I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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.

    Religious   Art   Rocks  
  • 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 (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.11, RosettaBooks
  • 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.

    Mean   Dancer   Doe  
    "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.
  • I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.

    Writing   Thinking   Play  
    Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com
  • Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? These are the kind of questions we are asking ourselves. So the new scenario will allow them to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.

    Asking   Want   Able  
  • I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

    Age   Avant Garde   Jazz  
    "Roy Harper: soundtrack of my life" by Leah Harper, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.
  • Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  • You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

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

  • 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.

    Avant Garde   Able   Said  
    Source: www.iaphitalia.org
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

  • The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

  • 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 (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage
  • 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

    Real   Taken   Play  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ...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.

    Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK
  • 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.

  • To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

    Play   Numbers   People  
    "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.
  • Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.

    Art   Eye   Exercise  
  • We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

    Eye   Perception   Vision  
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