Henry Flynt Quotes

• El rock se convirtió en un éxito comercial increíble, la gente se aburrió de la música seria y cayó en el olvido.

  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.

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  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.

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  Artist, Avant Garde, Students

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

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  Art, Genre Is, Purpose

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• I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

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  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.

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  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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• Básicamente, en ese momento, veía cualquier obra de arte como una imposición del gusto de otra persona y veía al individuo que hacía esta imposición como una especie de dictador.

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  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?

  Henry Flynt

  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.

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  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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