"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic……" — 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 utopian about it."
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17 Quotes by Henry Flynt
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with…
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More Backing Quotes
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible…
— Learned Hand
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A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
— Ruth Gordon
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
— Dan Millman
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite…
— Napoleon Hill
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
— Carrie Fisher
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Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I…
— Desiree Linden
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
— Alan Bean
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I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken…
— Unknown Author
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People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim…
— Pete Rose
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