Quotes By Robert Mapplethorpe

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

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

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

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

I wish I could be elegant.

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

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

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

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

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.