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Robert Mapplethorpe
American
Photographer
About the author
I wish I could be elegant.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Life
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Love
#People
#Devil
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Motivation
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Hope
#Fame
I just try to live my life and do my thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Life
I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Artist
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Flowers
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Bizarre
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Father
#Brother
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Love
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Change
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Today
#Photography
#Existence
#Madness
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Photography
#Energy
#Moments
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#God
#Work
#Art
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I'm not a photojournalist.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Life
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.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Party
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Artists
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Father
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Art
#Rest
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Public
#Being
#Flowers
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Time
#People
#Money
#Photography
#Portraits
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Public
#Art
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Beauty
#Devil
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Happiness
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Being
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.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Beauty
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Money
#Creativity
#Theory
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.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#People
#Thought
#Men
#London
#Gay
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Hope
#Pretty
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
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.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Forget
#Sex
I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#May
#Sleep
#Tomorrow
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Art
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
American
Photographer
#People
#Thought