Donald Judd

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. ”

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

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. ”

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. ”

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

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. ”

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves. ”