Artist Quote by John Cale

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

— Paul Valery

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

— Jeff Tweedy

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

— Ed Benguiat

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

— Phyllis McGinley

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

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

— Hakim Bey

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ...…

— Jurgen Habermas

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

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 avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

— Vangelis