Art Quote by Henry Flynt

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

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 this imposition…

— Henry Flynt

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

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

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 well known…

— 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 was nothing…

— Henry Flynt

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

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

— Henry Flynt