Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Maripol

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French artist Maripol.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Maripol is an artist, film producer, fashion designer and stylist. She has had an influence on the looks of influential artists such as Madonna and Grace Jones. As part of the 1980s New York downtown scene, she captured the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry with her Polaroid camera. Maripol also produced films, most notably Downtown 81.

French - Artist

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Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

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I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

Maripol

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Maripol

I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.

Maripol

I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.

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I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

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At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.

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When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.

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When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!

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