C. D. Innes quotes

“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”
-- C. D. Innes

Source : C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.1, Psychology Press

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“On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.”
-- C. D. Innes

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“In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?”
-- C. D. Innes

Source : C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”

“The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.”

“We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.”

“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”

“First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.”