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Richard Prince (born August 6, 1949) is an American artist renowned for his provocative appropriation art that challenges traditional notions of originality, authorship, and copyright. Through re-photographing existing images from advertising, magazines, and other media, Prince transforms found visuals into controversial works that explore themes of consumer culture, celebrity, and desire. His "Cowboy" and "Nurse" series have become iconic examples of post-modern art, fetching record prices at major auctions while sparking intense debates about the boundaries between art and theft.

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

People Mind Enough

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

Thinking Would Be Strange Ripped

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“What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.”

Emotion Personality Degrees Stealing Availability Appropriation

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“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 camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures.”

Years Has Beens Wish Mets Years Ago Cameras Guitar Forty Taking Pictures

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

Art Dangerous Impulse Our Thoughts Motor

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“The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.”

Art Problem Lasts Games Judging Art Is Balls Golf Holes Great Things Umpires

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“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”

People Use Jobs Film Sports Tears Strange Pages Cameras Fortune Photograph Magazines Developing Fake Department Ads Sheets Labs Delivering Editorials Sports Illustrated

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“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.”

Real Passion Real Things

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“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. Sometimes the opposite can happen, but it's usually the other way around.”

People Kind Sometimes Artist Term Interesting Conservative Radical

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“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 get back? You know, that's not for me.”

Thinking Looking Back

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“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 you're a trust-funder or you somehow score a great part-time job or you work for another artist, you're going to go where you can afford to live.”

Artist Creative

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“The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.”

People World Art Reason

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“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.”

World Art Mother Warhol

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“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.”

People Thinking Kind Party Dying Strange Dinner Party

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“The subject comes first, the medium second.”

Firsts Art Subjects Mediums

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

Art Studios Spontaneous Knocking

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

Names Changed Pennies

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Born: August 6, 1949
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