After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is. Donald Judd More Quotes by Donald Judd More Quotes From Donald Judd Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. Donald Judd morality be-good want 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 fifteen doe years And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. Donald Judd pollock radical expressionism 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 moments kind thinking And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. Donald Judd jersey league art 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 you work people art I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated. Donald Judd think you strong country 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 saying someone things simple 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 i-am new you painting Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. Donald Judd me together work people 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 like think pure art I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. Donald Judd anything see me i-can I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too. Donald Judd everything look work looks I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once. Donald Judd new best think work Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper. Donald Judd than more like united-states There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. Donald Judd place credit tradition people They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense. Donald Judd sense old work art Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period. Donald Judd good you quality time Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim. Donald Judd think painting culture america Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. Donald Judd well more who think
