I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
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.
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.
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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.
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.
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.
I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.
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.
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.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
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.
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.
We will have to create an avant-garde. . . . We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
