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> [Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/books-have-this-function-that-help-me-to-understand-the-work-i-ve-3/)

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## More by Wolfgang Tillmans

> [This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/this-coincided-with-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-and-europe-coming/)

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> [There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/there-is-this-looking-at-the-world-as-shapes-and-patterns-and-colors/)

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> [I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/i-think-there-is-something-very-consoling-in-feeling-lost-in-space/)

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> [What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/what-most-artists-using-photography-feel-that-they-need-to-do-is-to/)

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> [Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/whatever-pictures-are-put-into-the-world-the-balance-needs-to-be/)

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> [A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/a-photocopier-is-a-camera-in-its-own-right-i-was-fortunate-to-grow-up/)

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> [I heard this wonderful quote - "Only the brave show what they love." It's so-embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/i-heard-this-wonderful-quote-only-the-brave-show-what-they-love-it-s/)

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> [I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/i-am-interested-not-in-individual-readings-but-in-constructing/)

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> [Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/books-have-this-function-that-help-me-to-understand-the-work-i-ve/)

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> [For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/for-me-a-good-portrait-shows-the-fragility-and-humility-of-the-person/)

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> [I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/i-want-the-pictures-to-be-working-in-both-directions-i-accept-that/)

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> [This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/this-ongoing-coexistence-which-makes-life-sensational-the-eyes-have/)

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> [My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/my-staged-work-looks-so-real-that-people-actually-take-it-for/)

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> [For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/for-example-you-now-look-at-pictures-from-1968-they-are-hugely/)

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> [Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and more of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-tillmans/now-there-is-such-a-closed-loop-between-realness-and-commercialism/)

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