They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino.

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

The real response to the problem of human sin must always be that I cannot do anything to erase it.

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.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

I see things like they&#39;ve never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

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

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don&#39;t want to live.

Written By Robert Mapplethorpe