Top 29 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.