- Donald Judd: There were several problems that I finally could not solve in painting. I would get something in one painting that I would like, and other things I didn't like so much. The next painting would have something else I would like but some of the other things I didn't like. Nothing ever worked together. The paintings occurred one by one. it would leave always something unresolved. Some of the first three-dimensional things, several of the things I was interested in, occurred all at once. That's a normal logical thing. And that seemed impossible in the paintings. I couldn't get what I waned. I didn't like flatness, I didn't like them being against the wall. And I couldn't get around the problem of there always being something within the rectangle. Then you had the rectangle as a major thing, and the thing within it is a major thing, which gave you two things, and that division seemed impossible.