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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.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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Robert Mapplethorpe
Age: 42 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
Died: 1989
Died: March 18
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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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When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.
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I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
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My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
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I wish I could be elegant.
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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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The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
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When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
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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.
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Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
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Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.
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I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
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You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
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