Henry Flynt Quotes

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

  Henry Flynt

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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

  Henry Flynt

  Skulls, Mind, Open Mind

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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 picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Intellectual, Events

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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 well known at this time.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Avant Garde, Students

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

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Genre Is, Purpose

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• I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Fans, Great Fans

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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 was nothing utopian about it.

  Henry Flynt

  Backing Away, Utopian, Dogmatic

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• 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 people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

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  Artist, Thinking, Class

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• 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 as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Saws

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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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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  New York, Artist, Competing

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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 was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

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  New York, Insecure, Artist

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

  Henry Flynt

  Self, Problem, Obvious

  "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.

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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 the music into visual terms.

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  Artist, Term, Composing

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• 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 to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Oil, Cameras

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