Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

“Im looking for the unexpected. Im looking for things Ive never seen before.”

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isnt. And thats a tough place to be because youre never satisfied.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

People dont have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I cant be.

I would never have done what Id done if Id considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe