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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
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- Nov 07, 2020