Richard Prince (b. 1949)

“Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone’s work, I think to myself, ‘Gee, I wish I had done that.’ When I have that reaction to something I make, then I think I should stay with it, and go with it. It’s not like I have that reaction a lot. Very, very few times do I ever have that reaction. I remember thinking that if I had seen someone make the hand-written joke and call it their work, I would have said, ‘I wish I had done that’.” (R. Prince, quoted in ‘Band Paintings: Kim Gordon interviews Richard Prince,’ Interview Magazine, June 2012)