Donald Judd Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.”

“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 recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.”

“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.”

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

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

“I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.”