A Quote by Thomas Pynchon

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Thomas Pynchon

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Thomas Pynchon
American - Novelist
Born: May 8, 1937

During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All these parameters changed the art world form its previous aspects and fundamentals - the explosion of museums and institutions, explosion of Biennales and Triennials, explosion of money, explosion of interest, explosion of artists, explosion of countries interested in contemporary exhibitions, explosion of the public. Not to see that is to be more than blind.

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Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

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When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

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Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

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