Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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