Richard Prince Quotes

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a separate entity.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I can concentrate on my art.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I try and take the photographs and paintings and make them real. And the real video we treat as paintings. We flip the reality.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.