Photography Quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert 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.

Hands

Photography

Sake

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Knowing

Photography

Thinking

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Children

Photography

Sunday

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Perfect

Photography

Today

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Photographer

Photography

Unexpected

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Essentials

Photography

Wake Up

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Artist

Party

Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Photography

Two

Years

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

People

Photography

Waiting

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Great Photography

Photographer

Photography

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Sally Mann

Accurate

America

Architecture

Art

Artist

Bars

Behinds

Believe

Bizarre

Body

Brother

Cameras

Children

Cocktails

Creative

Creativity

Dad

Devil

Differences

Dogma

Drug

Ease

Education

Elegant

Energy

Essentials

Facts

Fame

Father

Firefighter

Fists

Flower

Forever

Forget

Frustrating

Gay

Good Place

Great Photography

Hands

Happened

Havens

Hiv

Holding Hands

Ifs

Knowing

Knows

Lied

Lifestyle

Living My Life

Long

Looks

Made

Making Love

Mean

Men

Moral

Motivational

Naked

Needs

Normal

Obligation

Party

People

Perfect

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Position

Powerful

Rude

Safe Environment

Sake

Scary

Secret

Seeing

Selfish

Sex

Sleep

Sunday

Talking

Thinking

Today

Together

Trying

Two

Umpires

Unexpected

Use

Waiting

Wake Up

Wall

Want

Way

Wish

Years

Zero

Photography Quotes by Robert 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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