I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
Robert MapplethorpeIf I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
Robert MapplethorpeI was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
Robert Mapplethorpe