Quotes By Robert Mapplethorpe

I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

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

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

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

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 wish I could be elegant.

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

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.