Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

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

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  Tags in Creativity

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

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  Tags in Wait

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

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  Tags in Need, Somebody, Anybody

• Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Devil

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

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  Tags in Thought, Agree

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

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  Tags in Artist, Attribute

• 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.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Perfect

• 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.

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  Tags in Men, Gay

• Happiness? No, it’s not there for me.

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  Tags in Happiness

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

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  Tags in Come, Looking

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

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  Tags in Hope, Live, Long

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

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  Tags in Believe, Person, Dogmas

• I don’t think any collector knows his true motivation.

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  Tags in True, Motivation, Knows

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

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  Tags in Artist, Normal, Written

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

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  Tags in Making, Point, Happened

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

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Made, Before

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Try

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

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  Tags in Sleep, Tomorrow

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

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  Tags in Around, Flowers

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

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  Tags in Before, Looking, Seen

Robert Mapplethorpe (43)

Birth:	4th November, 1946
Death:	9th March, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank homoeroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.

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