Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Party, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Art, Hands

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Edmund White (1995). “Altars”, Vintage

• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Photography, Sex, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Perfect, Today

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

• I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Hands, Sake

• If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Essentials, Wake Up

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

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, People, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Zero, Energy

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

• I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Unexpected, Photographer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Children, Sunday

• I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Thinking, Knowing

• If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Years, Two

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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