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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.

~Robert Mapplethorpe

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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.

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This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

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

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Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

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

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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

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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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My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: November 4th, 1946

Died: March 9th, 1989

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