"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."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Richard Prince

#Artist Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.127, Penguin
“I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere as an anarchist poet. I am a poet, yes. Not an anarchist. I have no formulated political philosophy other than a general feeling of disgust for the majority of the human race.”
“Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!”
“I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.”
“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”
“Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.”
“Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.”
“There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.”

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