Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

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

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

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

If 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.

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

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

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

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.