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Inspirational Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe
- I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
- I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
- I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a…
- Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
- Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
- I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.
- I just try to live my life and do my thing.
- One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself
- My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is
- 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
- I just want to be written about as a normal artist
- I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point
- I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself
- To make pictures big is to make them more powerful
- My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.
- This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
- When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist
- I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
- You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
- I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
- I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
- The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
More Inspirational Quotes
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento