Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

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

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  Tags in Wanted

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

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  Tags in Perfect, Madness

• I wish I could be elegant.

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  Tags in Wish, Elegant

• I’m not a photojournalist.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Become, Party

• I’ve never lied. I think I’ve lived a moral life.

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  Tags in Moral, Lived

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

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  Tags in Days, Naked

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

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  Tags in Change, Live, Lifestyle

• My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

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• My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be.

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  Tags in Brother

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

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  Tags in Some, Looking

• Sell the public flowers… things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

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  Tags in Public, Flowers

• One must ease the public into it – that’s an art in itself.

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  Topics in Art

• When I have s*x 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sex, Forget

• To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

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  Tags in Powerful, Pictures

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

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  Tags in Hope, Pretty

• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

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  Tags in Better, Pictures

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

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  Tags in Someone, Person

• With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

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

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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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