“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.”
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What appears to be the true source of this quote is not available online. Horton, Anne. / Raab Galerie Berlin : Raab Galerie, 1987 printing, c1986. / Robert Mapplethorpe 1986 : [exhibition catalogue]. Anne Horton and Robert Mapplethorpe, “Robert Mapplethorpe: Interview, January 11, 1987
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