Avant garde Quote by Robert Wyatt

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

— Domenico Dolce

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Coco Chanel

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for…

— Weyes Blood

I am one with the popular culture.

— Lloyd Blankfein

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

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…

— Anton Chekhov

Those are the things that excite me; what can you do with popular culture?

— Naughty Boy

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

— Jim Jarmusch

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

— Matt Drudge

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

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

— Antonio Tabucchi