Richard Prince Quotes

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

To make art you need to be inspired.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.