The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask … - Richard Prince

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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

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 was.

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

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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.

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

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

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