I Often Find That Having An Idea

That’s What Painting Does; It Organizes Vision In A Certain Way Or Suggests That Certain Things Be Paid Attention To And Certain Other Things Not Be Paid Attention To. It Functions In That Way To A Certain Extent In Our Civilization.

I Think Through Living One's Life, One Both Changes And Remains The Same. One Can See It Either Way, One Can See Oneself As Being Now What One Was And One Can See Oneself As Being Absolutely Different From What One Was. It's A Trick Of Thought.

A-not-complete-unit, Or A New Unit. The Elements In The 3 Parts Should Neither Fit Nor Not Fit Together. One Would Like Not To Be Led. Avoid The Idea Of A Puzzle Which Could Be Solved. Remove The Signs Of "thought." It Is Not "thought" Which Needs Showing.

Everybody Is Of Course Free To Interpret The Work In His Own Way. I Think Seeing A Picture Is One Thing And Interpreting It Is Another.

Donald Judd Spoke Of A 'neutral' Surface, But What Is Meant? Neutrality Must Involve Some Relationship (to Other Ways Of Painting, Thinking?) He Would Have To Include These In His Work To Establish The Neutrality Of That Surface. He Also Used 'non' Or 'not' - Expressive - This Is An Early Problem - A Negative Solution Or - Expression Of New Sense - Which Can Help One Into - What One Has Not Known. 'neutral' Expresses An Intention.