Donald Judd Quotes
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A simple box is really a complicated thing.
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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 experience of that particular moment.
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Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
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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.
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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
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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 pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
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Since I leapt into the world an empiricist, ideality was not a quality I wanted.
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Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
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I object very much when my work is said to not be political, because my feelings about the social system are in there somewhere. The idea is to have it all in there together-you can’t pull it out.
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I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.
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Material, space, and color are the main aspects of visual art. Everyone knows that there is material that can be picked up and sold, but no one sees space and color. Two of the main aspects of art are invisible; the basic nature of art is invisible.
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I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
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After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.
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Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.
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At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.
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Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.
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Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.