Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

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I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
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I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
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I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
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I'm not a photojournalist.
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Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
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I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
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If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
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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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I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
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