"It isn't necessary for a work to have……" — Donald Judd
"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 thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful."
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43 Quotes by Donald Judd
Donald Judd has 43 quotes on this site.
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Color, to continue had to occur in space.
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away.…
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The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains…
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away.…
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Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the…
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In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is…
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Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,
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Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,
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Design has to work. Art does not.
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You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only…
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If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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