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Top 15 Donald Judd Quotes (2025 Update)

Donald Judd Quote: “Design has to work. Art does not.”

1. “Design has to work. Art does not.”

— Donald Judd

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Donald Judd Quote: “If someone says it’s art, it’s art.”

2. “If someone says it’s art, it’s art.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Color, to continue had to occur in space.”

3. “Color, to continue had to occur in space.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “In terms of existing, everything is equal.”

4. “In terms of existing, everything is equal.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.”

5. “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

Donald Judd Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.”

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

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “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 quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.”

8. “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 quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist’s artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.”

9. “Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist’s artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Donald Judd Quote: “Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”

11. “Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Well, there’s a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.”

12. “Well, there’s a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.”

13. “And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “The older painting – well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it’s of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.”

14. “The older painting – well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it’s of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.”

15. “Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.”

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

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “And that Newman wasn’t, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.”

17. “And that Newman wasn’t, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.”

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

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd Quote: “But I think that’s a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.”

19. “But I think that’s a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.”

— Donald Judd

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