If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
Robert MapplethorpeWith photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Robert MapplethorpeI 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.
Robert Mapplethorpe