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 …

- Henry Flynt

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

- Henry Flynt

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…

- Henry Flynt

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…

- Henry Flynt

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…

- 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 i…

- Henry Flynt

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…

- Henry Flynt

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

- Henry Flynt

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 …

- Henry Flynt