Quotes By Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

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.

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

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

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.