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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 Donald Judd (1967)

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

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

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

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