Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

Quotes

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.

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

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

- Robert Mapplethorpe

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