American - Photographer | November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
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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.
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I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
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I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
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I'm not a photojournalist.
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I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
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I wish I could be elegant.
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I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
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I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
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I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
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I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
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