Robert Mapplethorpe

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don’t want to live…

I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody…

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame…

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

Happiness? No, it’s not there for me…

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be…

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don’t get it…

People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money…

Beauty and the devil are the same thing…

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it…

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful…