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 reduction idea…if my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.
Design has to work. Art does not. - Donald Judd
Design has to work. Art does not.
- 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
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist…
If someone says it's art, it's art. - Donald Judd
If someone says it's art, it's art.
In terms of existing, everything is equal. - Donald Judd
In terms of existing, everything is equal.
Color, to continue had to occur in space. - Donald Judd
Color, to continue had to occur in space.
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous. - Donald Judd
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. - Donald Judd
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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
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…
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
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…
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