Robert Mapplethorpe
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
art
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
art
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
beauty
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
beauty
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
change
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
dad
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
dad
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
happiness
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
hope
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
hope
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
-Robert Mapplethorpe
money
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