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…

- Richard Prince

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 …

- Richard Prince

The subject comes first, the medium second.

- Richard Prince

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

- Richard Prince

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

- Richard Prince

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

- Richard Prince

I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial page…

- Richard Prince

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

- Richard Prince

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.

- Richard Prince