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 we were browsing through the shops there were images that attracted me. These are all historical… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different? — Thomas Ruff Copy Share
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
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share
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
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
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share
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
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
