When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jason, 1983
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, 1976
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Don Herron, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1978
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe, Christopher Holly, c 1980
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-portrait, 1988






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