This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the time. Because maybe two percent of the people looked the way that we now associate with… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
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… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots.… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
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… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
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… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
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… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
