I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I'm not a photojournalist.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
Robert Mapplethorpe

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
Robert Mapplethorpe

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
Robert Mapplethorpe

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
Robert Mapplethorpe

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Robert Mapplethorpe

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.
Robert Mapplethorpe

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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