Donald Judd Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.”

“They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.”

“But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.”

“I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.”

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

“There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”