25 Quotes by Richard Prince

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

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.

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

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

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

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.

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.

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

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.