Richard Prince Quotes

It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

In art one idea is as good as another.

There is no best anything in art.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

Didacticism is the death of art.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Everything an artist spits is art.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

...if I can do it, it's not art.

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.