Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes

I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

Money fixes most problems.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

Money does not guarantee success.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money.

Money can’t solve every problem, but it can solve quite a few.

It's not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don't like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.

The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

Money makes it easier to dream.

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.