Quotes by Richard Prince

About Richard Prince:

Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began copying other photographer's work in 1975. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and wrongfully appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Richard Prince

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.

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Richard Prince

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

Richard Prince

I have no fear of changing looks.

Richard Prince

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.

Richard Prince

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.

Richard Prince

I love deliberately badly written books.

Richard Prince

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

Richard Prince

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Prince
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • Born1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhotographer; Painter