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 the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
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 Image
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
