People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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About Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer. Best known for his black-and-white photographs, his work encompassed celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, flowers, and still-life images.
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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.
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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.