Mapplethorpe Art Quotes & Sayings

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself. — Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. — Robert Mapplethorpe

When I create art, it's like holding hands with God. — Robert Mapplethorpe

I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out. — Tessa Bailey

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? — Mark Twain

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

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. — Robert Mapplethorpe

I came across Nell like you would a Robert Mapplethorpe at a street art fair, gobsmacked that something so valuable would be lumped in with a bunch of other crap like that. She'd been slumped against the bathroom wall in Butterfields, a dorm we later took to calling Butterfingers, for the lacrosse team residents who manhandled girls made Gumby-legged by Popov vodka. Even with her mouth hanging open, her tongue dry and pebbled white from all the medically sanctioned stimulants, there was no question that she had a movie star face. "Hey," I said, my — Jessica Knoll

There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe's work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear: stray too far from the innocuous, and the axe would fall. Call it selective censorship: freedom of expression was guaranteed unless it was expressed in a work of art. The most amazing aspect of this American morality play was not that the government would place self-interest above principle when it felt threatened, but that no one foresaw this coming from miles down the road. A reminder from history: the American Revolution was not financed with matching Grants from the Crown. COMMON — David Bayles

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. — Cullen Hightower

They go out and visit the kinds of places they are learning about such as the county court system, the grocery store oe the Department of Water and Power. They come back to the classroom and discuss what's going on in the world, and they get wood and tools and construct a scaled-down version of what they have seen. Usually the structure will take up the entire room. If it's a grocery store, then one person will be the manager, another the cashier, or the supplier of produce to the store. They will find out through creative discussion and play what possible problems they can run into operating a grocery store and will work together to solve those problems. — Fiona Whitney

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. — Robert Mapplethorpe

to stop the Fire Nation — Michael Teitelbaum