Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

» I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

» You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

» With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

» Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

» Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

» When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

» When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

» To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

» This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

» The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

» The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

» The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.

» Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

» People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

» One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

» My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

» My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

» My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

» Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

» If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

» If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

» I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

» I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

» I'm not a photojournalist.

» I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

» I wish I could be elegant.

» I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

» I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

» I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

» I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

» I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

» I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

» I just try to live my life and do my thing.

» I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

» I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

» I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

» I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

» I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

» I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

» I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

» I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

» I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

» I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

» Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

» Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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