Creativity Quote by Boyd Rice

Power, in Boyd Rice's mouth, isn’t a policy question; it’s an aesthetic fixation. The blunt repetition of "I have an interest" plays like a self-issued disclaimer: he’s not claiming virtue, just appetite. That affectless cadence matters. It frames "absolute power" not as a moral emergency but as a collectible object, something to be studied, handled, maybe even admired for its purity.

The key word is "find". It softens agency and smuggles in fatalism, as if tyrants and autocrats simply wash up on shore of history. Rice avoids naming any ideology, which is precisely the point: the vagueness makes the statement portable. It can function as provocation, as plausible deniability, or as a flirtation with the taboo of domination without having to defend the consequences. He’s interested in the position, not the body count.

As an artist associated with industrial/noise and a long-running reputation for courting extremist imagery, Rice’s line reads like an explanation of method: examine the machinery of authority the way one might examine a feedback loop or an amplifier turned to maximum. "Absolute" is the tell. It’s not power as governance or responsibility; it’s power as limit case, power as spectacle, power as a simplified drama with only one voice.

The subtext is a dare to the audience: are you going to moralize, or admit that authority has a dark magnetism? The intent, culturally, is to keep the conversation trapped between critique and complicity - an edgy posture that turns political horror into artistic frisson, and asks you to decide where your own fascination begins.