Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Powerful #Bigs
“I want to see something I've never seen before.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Want
“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.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Party #Artist
“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Art #Hands #Holding Hands
“The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Photographer
“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Devil
“I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Artist #People #Frustrating
“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.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Sex #Who I Am #Cameras
“I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Perfect #Today
“Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#People #Making Love #Devil
“I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Flower #Way #Educate
“I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before â€¦ I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Unexpected #Obligation #Particular
“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.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Hands #Sake
“I 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

#Way #Facts #Looks
“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.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Wake Up #Essentials
“With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #Zero #Goes On
“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Creativity #Creative #Theory
“I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Believe #Dogma #Good Person
“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Photography #People #Waiting
“When Iâ€™m behind a camera I forget I exist”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Cameras #Forget #Behinds
“Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Mean #Bars
“I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Sleep #Trying #May
“The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Art #Artist #Photograph
“The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Artist #Rude #Secret
“Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Wall #Flower #Artist
“I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Artist #Drug #Use
“This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Scary #Stuff #Aids
“I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe
“If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Want #Lifestyle
“My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is”
-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Needs #Lifestyle #Bizarre

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