Richard Prince (b. 1949)

The great thing about an appropriation is that even though the transformation reads as fiction, everybody knows that the source of the appropriation was at some point non-fiction, (magazine, movie, etc.), and it's these sources, or elements of non-fiction, that gives the picture, no matter how questionable, its believable edge. (as quoted in R. Brooks, J. Rian, and L. Sante, Richard Prince, London and New York 2003)