107 Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

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

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

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.

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

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

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.

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

I just want to be written about as a normal artist

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.