29 Quotes by Henry Flynt
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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.
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I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
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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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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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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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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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I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
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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.
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