Richard Prince quotes:
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I have no fear of changing looks.
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Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.
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I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
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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.
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I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."
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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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It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!
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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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The subject comes first, the medium second.
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We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.