Richard Prince Quotes

I love deliberately badly written books.

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 ...

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

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.

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.

I have no fear of changing looks.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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