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> [Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/only-a-bad-artist-thinks-he-has-a-good-idea-a-good-artist-does-not/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

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## More by Ad Reinhardt

> [Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/only-a-bad-artist-thinks-he-has-a-good-idea-a-good-artist-does-not/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [Art is not the spiritual side of business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/art-is-not-the-spiritual-side-of-business/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/there-is-a-black-which-is-old-and-a-black-which-is-fresh-lustrous/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/it-is-not-right-for-painters-to-think-that-painting-is-like/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/we-all-name-ourselves-we-call-ourselves-artists-nobody-asks-us-nobody/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [My paintings are the last paintings one can make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/my-paintings-are-the-last-paintings-one-can-make/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/i-tried-to-oppose-the-academic-to-the-marketplace/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/the-only-and-one-way-to-say-what-abstract-art-or-art-as-art-is-is-to/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/as-for-a-picture-if-it-isn-t-worth-a-thousand-words-the-hell-with-it/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/painting-cannot-be-the-only-activity-of-a-mature-artist/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/if-some-student-came-up-and-wanted-to-know-where-to-study-painting/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/an-artist-who-dedicates-his-life-to-art-burdens-his-art-with-his-life/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/i-want-to-emphasize-the-idea-of-black-as-intellectuality-and/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [Art is too serious to be taken seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/art-is-too-serious-to-be-taken-seriously/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

> [The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/the-artist-should-once-and-forever-emancipate-himself-from-the/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

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