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The furniture is comfortable to me. Rather than making a chair to sleep in or a machine to live it, it is better to make a bed. A straight chair is best for eating or writing. The third position is standing. (Donald Judd)
The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting. View quote
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A work can be as powerful as it can be thought to be. Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. View quote
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I object very much when my work is said to not be political, because my feelings about the social system are in there somewhere. The idea is to have it all in there together-you can't pull it out. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything sculpture has, my work doesn't. View quote
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Material, space, and color are the main aspects of visual art. Everyone knows that there is material that can be picked up and sold, but no one sees space and color. Two of the main aspects of art are invisible; the basic nature of art is invisible. View quote
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The main qualifications to the lesser position of painting is that advances in art are certainly not always formal ones. View quote
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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. View quote
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Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. I didn't want to get into something which is played out and narrow. I want to do as I like, invent my own interests. Of course, that doesn't mean that people who, like Newman, still paint are worn out. 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. I think what I'm trying to deal with is something more long range than that in a way, more obscure perhaps, more involved with things that happen over a longer time perhaps. At least it's another area of experience. View quote
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Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. View quote
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The art of a chair is not its resemblance to art, but is partly its reasonableness, usefulness and scale as a chair. View quote
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A painting by Newman is finally no simpler than one by Cezanne. View quote
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If a chair or a building is not functional. View quote
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A work needs only to be interesting. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. View quote
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Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. View quote
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After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is. View quote
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