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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.

— Donald Judd Attributed

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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)

Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture.

The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.

The art of a chair is not its resemblance to art, but is partly its reasonableness, usefulness and scale as a chair.

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