Famous quotes by Photographers

"I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently!"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not a photojournalist"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I wish I could be elegant"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I should try to get some sleep, as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"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, Photographer

"I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I just try to live my life and do my thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it?"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"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"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Happiness? No, it's not there for me"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Beauty and the devil are the same thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Many people who excel are self-taught"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

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