Mapplethorpe Art Quotes

#1. A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Murray Kempton

#2. If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me?
quoted by Susannah Simon

Meg Cabot

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

#4. When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#5. Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Herbert Hoover

#6. To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#7. The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

James F. Cooper

#8. Love for her threatened to overwhelm me. I set down all my bags and drew her into my arms. That silly mug suddenly took on monumental significance, and looking down at her, at the face I loved so much, I could see the future she described, a future together where we could accomplish anything.

Richelle Mead

#9. No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Garth Brooks

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

#11. If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

Glen A. Larson

#12. Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering.

David Deutsch

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

#14. To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Dorothea Dix

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

#16. First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do.

Belle De Jour

#17. Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well - that would be the end of the universe.

Anonymous