Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. I'm not a photojournalist. I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life. If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live. Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love. My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is. My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself. People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it. To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist. When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
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