Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began copying other photographer's work in 1975. His image, Untitled, a rephotographing of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth6 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
Richard Prince quotes about
art spontaneous knocking
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
thinking would-be strange
It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!
guitar years wish
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...
availability personality degrees
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.
art firsts mediums
The subject comes first, the medium second.
art golf games
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.
sports jobs people
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.
real passion real-things
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.
people mind enough
I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."
art impulse dangerous
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
names pennies changed
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
art
Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.