Robert Mapplethorpe

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

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.

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

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.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.