American - Artist | June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994
After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.
Donald Judd
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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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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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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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I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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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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Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.
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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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Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
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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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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
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