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 w….

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

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up o….

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 d….

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 ….

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 ….

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 wer….

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

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 i….

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

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 ter….

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

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity..

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