Mapplethorpe Smith Quotes

#1. It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

Patti Smith

#2. When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

David Richo

#3. To live an eternity in hell without one's love. He supposed that could be perceived as somewhat vexing.

Rosanna Leo

#4. There were always bullies, but the adults were still in charge. Now? Now the bullies rule. Different game, brother, a whole different game. We play by the bully rules now.

Michael Grant

#5. I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Cameron Dokey

#6. We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other.

Patti Smith

#7. Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Henry Rollins

#8. He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

Patti Smith

#9. Nothing teaches us so much the preciousness of the Creator, as when we learn the emptiness of all besides.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Ron Silver

#11. I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

Ratan Tata

#12. Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

Patti Smith

#13. I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

Pablo Neruda

#14. Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God. Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and don't let go.

(letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970)

Patti Smith

#15. Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

David J. Lieberman

#16. Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Albert Camus

#17. For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Zaha Hadid

#18. Of course, in the end, when Mapplethorpe turned out to be very gay, Smith was left with no other option than to go off and write Horses and grow the world's most influential lady mustache instead. Her hand was forced into productivity.

Caitlin Moran

#19. I see the Hell Bells post in my head, that weird "BFC" thing. Bullets From Crazies? Beat Fags Cheerfully?

J.C. Lillis

#20. Mercy, who breaks God's commandments without fear or regret, who works hard to make others suffer, or who fights for personal gain at your expense

Sarah Price

#21. Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

Richard P. Feynman

#22. Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

Patti Smith