Art Quote by Ad Reinhardt Download Open image “Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.” — Ad Reinhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Brilliant Brilliant ideas Doe Good art Good artist Ideas Needs Thinking
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two, hopefully, and there are a lot of people there that can do things well, but they might not be devoid of good ideas or maybe they're not especially interesting ideas, or maybe there's a good idea… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve. — Koffee Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
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… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
