Henry Flynt: Quotes about art

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“Concept art is first of all an art of which the material is concepts, as the material of e. g. music is sound. Since concepts are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.”

Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.) An Anthology, 1963.

“Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another persons taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.”

Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt talks to Stewart Home, New York 8 March 1989

“Concept art was meant to replace all of mathematics with an endeavor which involved a Rorschach-blot semantics; and which did not claim to be cognitive, at least not in the inherited sense. Mathematics had already been disconnected from claims of realism; and I was extending that disavowal to a disconnection from claims of a priori truth. Concept art's value consisted in beauty, a beauty which was non-sentimental. Later I would say that its value consisted in "the invention of new mental abilities."”

Henry Flynt

Popularity had nothing to do with whether this avenue was worth taking. <br class="br">Henry Flynt. " The Crystallization of Concept Art in 1961 http://www.henryflynt.org/meta_tech/crystal.html," at henryflynt.org, 1994.