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People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.
— Ferran Adria
Apparently the Ministerium Tenebrae had decided to conquer the region using the unusual twin-pronged attack of zombies and avant-garde artwork.
— Jonathan L. Howard
The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?
— Carlton Mellick III
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
— Clement Greenberg
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
— Ferran Adria
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
— Twyla Tharp
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
— David Mitchell
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.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
— Nicolas Cage
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
— Neville Marriner
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
— Edmund White
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
— Jonathan Miller
No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
— Riccardo Tisci
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.
— Anton Chekhov
The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at
— Dean Cavanagh
There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde.
— Silvia Hartmann
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
— Damien Chazelle
Avant Garde is French for bullshit.
— George Harrison
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
— Igor Stravinsky
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
— Mason Cooley
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.
— Rosalind E. Krauss
The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
— Rosalyn Drexler
We live in an age where ... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
— Pat Buchanan
The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
— David Mamet
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
— Bruno Heller
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
— Matthew Shipp
Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?
— Hugo Ball
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
— Andrei Platonov
Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!
— Morrissey
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
— Bat For Lashes
Everything changes but the avant-garde.
— Paul Valery
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
— Hakim Bey
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
— Steven Soderbergh
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
— Bjarke Ingels
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
— Michael Scott
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
— Michael Graves
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
— Ferran Adria
We will have to create an avant-garde ... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
— Jacques Delors
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.
— Jasmine Guinness
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
— Roy Harper
It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.
— Phyllis McGinley
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
— Brian Greene
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
— John Cale
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
— Seamus Heaney
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.
— Jeff Tweedy
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
— Herbert Marcuse
That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.
— Alfred Jarry