I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
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.
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.
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.
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.
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.
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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.
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.
My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.
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.
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.
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.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
