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 pl… - Donald Judd

In any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. 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.

I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.

p. 76; As quoted in: De gids, Vol. 131, Nr. 1-5, (1968), p. 262