Design has to work. Art does not.

- Donald Judd

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

- Donald Judd

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

- Donald Judd

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

- Donald Judd

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist…

- Donald Judd

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 qualit…

- Donald Judd

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

- Donald Judd

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

- Donald Judd

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduct…

- Donald Judd