The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits. — 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 way I would take photographs of a plaster bust. — 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
