50 Quotes by Donald Judd

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

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.

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

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.