"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#Sex Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.”
“My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.”

Source : "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.
“Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.”
“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love”

Source : Song: Interlude, Album: Acid Rap, 2013
“Now I will have less distraction.”

Source : Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)
“It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.”
“Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books

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