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Robert Mapplethorpe

"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."

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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

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"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

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"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."

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"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence."
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"I just try to live my life and do my thing."
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"I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life."
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"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."
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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"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."
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"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
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"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
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"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."
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"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
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