All Donald Judd Quotes
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.
Donald Judd

51% of people like this quote
Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.
Donald Judd

51% of people like this quote
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, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd

50% of people like this quote
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 very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
Donald Judd

50% of people like this quote
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
Donald Judd

49% of people like this quote
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.
Donald Judd

48% of people like this quote
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.
Donald Judd

47% of people like this quote
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
Donald Judd

46% of people like this quote
They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
Donald Judd

44% of people like this quote
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
Donald Judd

43% of people like this quote
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 are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
Donald Judd

42% of people like this quote
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
Donald Judd

42% of people like this quote
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
Donald Judd

35% of people like this quote
Related authors
