"The art and architecture of the past that……" — Donald Judd
"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 or built. Â Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times."
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43 Quotes by Donald Judd
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Color, to continue had to occur in space.
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It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one…
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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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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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