Henry Flynt Quotes

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• Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
• I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into…
• 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 at…
• The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
• 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…
• When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
• 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…
• When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
• 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 of…
• Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian…
• I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
• A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
• In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began…
• At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The…
• I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
• I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
• 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…

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