Robert Mapplethorpe

I'm interested in the good and the evil.

I'm interested in the heaven and the hell.

I'm interested in the spiritual and the physical.

I'm interested in the mind and the body.

I'm interested in the soul and the flesh.

I'm interested in the life and the death.

I'm interested in the eternity and the moment.

I'm interested in the universe and the atom.

I'm interested in everything.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want to get as close to it as possible.

The work is the person. I am the work.

My work is about desire.

I work from the heart.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the mind of the artist.

I never wanted to be a photographer. I always wanted to be an artist.

Art is the most beautiful of all man's occupations.

I'm looking for the perfect image.

The camera is my tool for exploring the body.

Perfection is the ultimate goal.

I see beauty in the forbidden.