Robert Mapplethorpe

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

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.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

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.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

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