When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language. — Henry Flynt Copy Share
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt Copy Share
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. — Henry Flynt Copy Share
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment.… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up… — Henry Flynt Copy Share
