Henry Flynt Quotes

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.

It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

I don't buy or wear nothing I don't like.