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" 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. "
Away
False
Nothing
" 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. "
Music
Work
Time
" 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. "
Art
Kind
Person
" 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. "
Visual
Composing
Interested
" 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. "
Me
Culture
Up
" I have a picture of an ideal consciousness. "
Consciousness
Picture
Ideal
" I'm actually a great fan of lucidity. "
Actually
Fan
Great
" I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life. "
Assemble
Mode
Life
" 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. "
Camera
Oil
Painting
" 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. "
Painting
Time
Abstract
" Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. "
Rock
Success
Music
" Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language. "
Up
Bound
Language
" 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. "
Human
Culture
Drive
" When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. "
New
Competing
New York
" 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? "
New York
Know
Famous
" When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. "
Somebody
Says
Problem
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