Henry Flynt Quotes

#1. I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Henry Flynt

#2. 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

#3. I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

Henry Flynt

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

Henry Flynt

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Henry Flynt

#8. Why did I ever think I could stay away?

Sara Claridge

#9. In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. 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.

Henry Flynt

#11. 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.

Henry Flynt

#12. For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Lactantius

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

Henry Flynt

#14. Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

John Lyly

#15. 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

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

Henry Flynt

#17. I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.

Marge Piercy

#18. Many people say, "Oh, we have nothing against Puerto Ricans," and I wanted a way to unmask the people that say that they have nothing against gay people.

Luis Negron

#19. When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Henry Flynt

#20. The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Henry Flynt

#21. Mary bit her lip. "She is merely saying hello."
Oh, I am, Tottie agreed. I've been wanting to say hello to Mr. Jack for an age, personal-like. Her hand glided over his chest and headed down. Such a fine cocky fella, ye are. Shall we see if it's all just tall tales, then, me lad?

Kristen Callihan

#22. 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

#23. I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

Henry Flynt

#24. Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

#25. Basically, 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