It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.
Donald JuddIn the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.
Donald JuddIt isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.
Donald JuddYouโre getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction ideaโฆif my work is reductionist itโs because it doesnโt have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.
Donald Judd