Robert Mapplethorpe Professions : Photographer Born : November 4, 1946 Died : March 9, 1989 Browse All Authors Top 59 quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. Robert Mapplethorpe architecture powerful photographer I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied. Robert Mapplethorpe artist perfect want I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl. Robert Mapplethorpe differences fists thinking 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 party photography artist I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them. Robert Mapplethorpe obligation position unexpected When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. Robert Mapplethorpe photography hands art Beauty and the devil are the same thing. Robert Mapplethorpe devil photographer 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 photography artist sex My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before. Robert Mapplethorpe seeing havens I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. Robert Mapplethorpe photography perfect today I just try to live my life and do my thing. Robert Mapplethorpe living-my-life artist trying The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe great-photography photography photographer 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 wake-up essentials photography 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. Robert Mapplethorpe safe-environment good-place america 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. Robert Mapplethorpe photography two years 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 accurate made art 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. Robert Mapplethorpe photography sake hands Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. Robert Mapplethorpe wall flower artist I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe facts looks way You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations. Robert Mapplethorpe obligation ifs Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
