If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than it was. Manipulation is very discrete and because it's so discrete nobody… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So it's the old thing that you still cannot trust photography at all or you have to… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say, because the… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different? — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
