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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

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Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

~Donald Judd

Topics: Any Art Get Like Lot Technical Things Well You

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The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

~Donald Judd

Topics: Attitude Capacity Factory Furniture Ideas Metal Naturally New New Ideas Old Possibility Quickly Suggested Table Wooden

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

~Donald Judd

Topics: After Piece Point Work

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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.

~Donald Judd

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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

~Donald Judd

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

~Donald Judd

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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.

~Donald Judd

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

~Donald Judd

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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

~Donald Judd

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: June 3rd, 1928

Died: February 12th, 1994

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