Donald Judd Quotes

The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.

Donald Judd

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• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Him

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Important
  • Building

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Dreams

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• My imagination is a twisted place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Twisted

• It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Time
  • Great

• They'll try to apply the rules of the day to the game, where you can't touch your board with your hands, or you can't step off your board, etc and I want nothing to do with it. It's like a game from a different planet or something and it's hard for me to relate to anybody who would think of skateboarding in such a narrow way.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

  

  Andrea Arnold
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  

  William Banting
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Exercise

• Watching 'Morvern Callar' was a game changer for me.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • Game

• The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking