Richard Prince famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
-- Richard Prince

#Names #Pennies #Changed
I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."
-- Richard Prince

#People #Mind #Enough
The subject comes first, the medium second.
-- Richard Prince

#Art #Firsts #Mediums
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
-- Richard Prince

#Art #Spontaneous #Knocking
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.
-- Richard Prince

#Art #Golf #Games
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.
-- Richard Prince

#Availability #Personality #Degrees
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
-- Richard Prince

#Art #Dangerous #Impulse
It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!
-- Richard Prince

#Thinking #Would Be #Strange
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.
-- Richard Prince

#Sports #Jobs #People
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.
-- Richard Prince

#Real #Passion #Real Things
If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless you're a trust-funder or you somehow score a great part-time job or you work for another artist, you're going to go where you can afford to live.
-- Richard Prince

#Artist #Creative
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.
-- Richard Prince

#Guitar #Years #Wish
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. Sometimes the opposite can happen, but it's usually the other way around.
-- Richard Prince

#Artist #People #Interesting
The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.
-- Richard Prince

#Mother #Art #World
The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.
-- Richard Prince

#Art #People #World
I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around with people who have money! I think that's the biggest thing. Once you do get a bit of change in your pocket, you start hanging around with other people who have some change. It was kind of strange to all of a sudden go from one extreme-Manhattan-to where I went, upstate New York. But I did it because I was dying in the city. I couldn't take it. I couldn't take one more dinner party. I couldn't take one more party, period.
-- Richard Prince

#Party #Thinking #People
I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.
-- Richard Prince

#Thinking #Looking Back

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