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