Quotes from 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.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

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.

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.

I love deliberately badly written books.

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

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.

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

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

The subject comes first, the medium second.