Richard Prince Quotes

#1. I have no fear of changing looks.

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#2. The subject comes first, the medium second.

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#3. Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

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#4. Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

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#5. What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared ... It's like 50% off ... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

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#6. I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures ...

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#7. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

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#8. Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

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#9. In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

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#10. My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.

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#11. Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

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#12. I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

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#13. A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

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#14. We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

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#15. It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

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#16. It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

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#17. I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

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#18. I love deliberately badly written books.

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#19. I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

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