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You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Age: 42 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
Died: 1989
Died: March 18
Collagist
Photo Artist
Photographer
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Floral Park
Queens
Bob Mapplethorpe
Robert Maplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe
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I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
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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.
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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.
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I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
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I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
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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.
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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
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The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
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I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.
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I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
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I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.
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I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
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With photography, you zero in you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
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My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
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When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.
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Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
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I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.
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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.
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I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
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