Robert Mapplethorpe

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

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful."

"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."

"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."

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."

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