Donald Judd Quotes

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

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30’s and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else’s work too.

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

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

I don’t think geometric art is… I don’t like to call it that. I don’t think it’s any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn’t have anything to do with purity.

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.

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.

After all, the work isn’t the point; the piece is.