Art Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe Download Open image “The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.” — Robert Mapplethorpe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Photography
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of paint go into the scientific inventory, and it is claimed that everything that there really was in the picture is kept. But this way of keeping a thing may be much the same as losing it.… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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