Photography Quotes by Wolfgang Tillmans

I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Boy George of course, was my idol as a teenager. I haven't photographed him, even though I know him now. He wants…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera,…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Sometimes it takes a long time for a picture to incubate. And every time I do that, the rewards are so much…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor,…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

This act of piss, which can be considered sexual by some, a pleasurable experience, is at the same time total disrespect. I…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an…

— Wolfgang Tillmans