Robert Mapplethorpe

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I'm not a photojournalist.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.