107 Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

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

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made