I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert MapplethorpePeople don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert MapplethorpeI like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Robert Mapplethorpe