I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around with people who have money! I think that's the biggest thing. Once you do get a bit of change in your pocket, you start hanging around with other people who have some change. It was kind of strange to all of a sudden go from one extreme-Manhattan-to where I went, upstate New York. But I did it because I was dying in the city. I couldn't take it. I couldn't take one more dinner party. I couldn't take one more party, period.
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
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 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
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…
It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do! - Richard Prince
It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. - Richard Prince
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
The subject comes first, the medium second. - Richard Prince
The subject comes first, the medium second.
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name. - Richard Prince
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I … - Richard Prince
I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I …
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
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial page…
If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless yo… - Richard Prince
If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless yo…
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