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I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Thought
People
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
Art
Time
I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
Robert Mapplethorpe
May
Sleep
Tomorrow
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
Sex
Forget
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Hope
Pretty
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.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Men
Thought
People
Gay
London
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Money
Creativity
Theory
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
Beauty
Want
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Being
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Happiness
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty
Devil
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art
Public
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Money
Time
People
Photography
Portraits
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Being
Flowers
Public
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art
Rest