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Quotes from Donald Judd — Donald Judd

d. 1994 United States

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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

Donald Judd (1987)

The main qualifications to the lesser position of painting is that advances in art are certainly not always formal ones.

Donald Judd (1963)

The main virtue of geometric shapes is that they aren't organic, as all art otherwise is. A form that's neither geometric or organic would be a great discovery.

Donald Judd (1967)

Everything sculpture has, my work doesn’t.

Donald Judd (1967)

At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.

Donald Judd (1974)

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Some work is too large, complex and expensive to move. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Donald Judd (1987)

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