Quotes By Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I could be elegant.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 don't think any collector knows his true motivation.