Art Quote by Donald Judd Download Open image “Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,” — Donald Judd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Flats Minimalism Paint Painting Powerful Sculptors Sculpture Space Surface
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff Copy Share Image
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right,… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
