Donald Judd Quotes

• It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

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  Powerful, Interesting, Quality

  Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein (2002). “Donald Judd: 1955-1968”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• El espacio real es intrínsecamente más poderoso y específico que la pintura sobre una superficie plana.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Powerful, Space

  Donald Judd (2005). “Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints”, Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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• Design has to work. Art does not.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Design, Doe

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• If someone says it's art, it's art.

  Donald Judd

  Arte

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

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  Art, Architecture, Isolation

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Te estás deshaciendo de las cosas que la gente solía pensar que eran esenciales para el arte. Pero esa reducción es sólo incidental. Si mi obra es reduccionista es porque no tiene los elementos que la gente creía que debían estar ahí. Pero tiene otros elementos que me gustan.

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  Arte, Pensamiento, Ideas

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• In terms of existing, everything is equal.

  Donald Judd

  Equal, Term

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• Color, to continue had to occur in space.

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  Color, Space

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

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  Ridiculous, Building, Chairs

  "Donald Judd furniture: retrospective".

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• Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

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  Art, Essence, Mixing

  American Dialog Vol. 1-5, p.9, 1964.

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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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  Interesting, Attention, Done

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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

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  Art, Should, Moved

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

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  Art, Taken, Past

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• 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.

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  Art, Should, Deals

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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

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  Art, Example, Were Meant To Be

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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

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  Art, Thinking, Denial

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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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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  Art, Wells

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• La actitud y la capacidad de la fábrica, la vieja mesa de metal y las nuevas ideas de los muebles de madera sugirieron rápida y naturalmente la posibilidad de los muebles de metal.

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  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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

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  Want, Morality, Be Good

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• Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

  Donald Judd

  Looks, Unusual, Radical

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• En verano hay doce álamos alrededor de la piscina, que en invierno se convierten en un matorral elevado. También hay un patio con un pequeño jardín de plantas que permanecen verdes todo el año. El invierno es sombrío. Este lugar es principalmente para la instalación de arte, necesariamente para cualquier arquitectura propia que pueda incluirse en una situación existente, para el trabajo y, en conjunto, para mi idea de vivir.

  Donald Judd

  Summer, Art, Winter

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Kind, Moments

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• 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.

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  Years, Doe, Fifteen

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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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  Expressionism, Radical, Pollock

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• Luego nos mudamos a Nueva Jersey y fui a la Art Students League.

  Donald Judd

  Art, League, Jersey

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