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Quotes from Donald Judd

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
~ Donald Judd
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.
~ Donald Judd
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.
~ 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.
~ Donald Judd
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.
~ Donald Judd
Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.
~ Donald Judd
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
~ Donald Judd
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
~ Donald Judd
Design has to work. Art does not.
~ Donald Judd