Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

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• My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Havens, Seeing

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• I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Unexpected, Obligation, Position

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• Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Devil, Photographer

  " 'He was a sexual outlaw': my love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe" by Jack Fritscher, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Thinking, Differences, Fists

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• When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Cameras, Forget, Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Perfect, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

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• To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Powerful, Photographer, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Unexpected, Photographer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Art, Hands

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Edmund White (1995). “Altars”, Vintage

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• 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

  Photography, Sex, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Party, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Years, Two

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• I just try to live my life and do my thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Trying, Living My Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Essentials, Wake Up

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• 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

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• 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

  Looks, Way, Facts

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• I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Hands, Together, Naked

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• I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Selfish, Artist, Umpires

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photographer, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 good place to leave.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Safe Environment, America, Good Place

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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.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Father, Artist, Firefighter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Needs, Lifestyle, Bizarre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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