Donald Judd Quotes
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
Judd, Donald. Interview with Dorothy Seckler. Oral History Interview with Donald Judd. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 15 Apr. 1965.
Randell, a Nobel Laureate brain scientist, is also an art collector, and has studied the brain’s reaction to different kinds of art. There are some people who become so distressed with the burden of using their imagination and expecting not to have to do so, do not have a more intense experience or much of an experience at all as the reject the notion of using their imagination. They see that as the artist’s job and we say of those people that they do not care for abstract art.
Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. Nevertheless, he is generally considered the leading international exponent of "minimalism," and its most important theoretician through such seminal writings as "Specific Objects" (1964). Judd voices his unorthodox perception of minimalism in Arts Yearbook 8, where he asserts; "The new three dimensional work doesn't constitute a movement, school, or style. The common aspects are too general and too little common to define a movement. The differences are greater than the similarities."
