Donald Judd Quotes

• Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

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• 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.

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• Well, there’s a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

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• Well, its very exasperating when you can’t get it right.

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• Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

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• Well, I don’t think anyone now would say that they’re painting the state of the culture of America. I think that’s too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• They certainly aren’t connected with the old geometric art. My work isn’t geometric in that sense.

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• There’s probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

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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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• Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

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• Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

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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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• And that Newman wasn’t, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

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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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Donald Judd (29)

Birth:	3rd June, 1928
Death:	12th February, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist

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Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy.

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