Avant garde Quote by Blixa Bargeld

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.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

— John Cale

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…

— C. D. Innes

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

— Ed Benguiat

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,

— Coco Chanel

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a…

— Robert Wyatt

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

— Paul Valery

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

— Phyllis McGinley

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

— Geraldo Rivera

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…

— Michael Eisner

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of…

— Gunther Schuller