American - Photographer | November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
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I just try to live my life and do my thing.
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Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
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You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
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With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
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Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
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Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
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My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
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