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" Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. "
Donald Judd
Morality
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. "
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" 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. "
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" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "
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" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "
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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. "
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" They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense. "
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" I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. "
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" There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. "
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" Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper. "
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" And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. "
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" I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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