Donald Judd Quotes

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• Color, to continue had to occur in space.
• It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and…
• The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed…
• It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The…
• It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and…
• Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is…
• In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a…
• Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,
• Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,
• Design has to work. Art does not.
• You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the…
• If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
• I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
• I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
• And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
• Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
• And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility…
• Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
• Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

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