Donald Judd Quotes

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.