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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating…
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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…
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The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
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I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one…
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I…
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When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as…
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Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there…
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I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
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A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
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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
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
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