Donald Judd Quotes

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

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

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

If someone says it's art, it's art.

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

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

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

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

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

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.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

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

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

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.

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.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.