“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.”
Robert Mapplethorpe“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”
Robert Mapplethorpe