Henry Flynt

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating…

— Henry Flynt

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

— Henry Flynt

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

— Henry Flynt

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making…

— Henry Flynt

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological…

— Henry Flynt

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I…

— Henry Flynt

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

— Henry Flynt

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…

— Henry Flynt

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

— Henry Flynt

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there…

— Henry Flynt

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the…

— Henry Flynt

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

— Henry Flynt

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as…

— Henry Flynt

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the…

— Henry Flynt

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one…

— Henry Flynt

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

— Henry Flynt

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

— Henry Flynt

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

— Henry Flynt