This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try… — 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 questioning what a lot of photography has done since I began. I am not saying because of me, but I mean, photographing some friends partying and publishing the pictures meant something else in '92 than it… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share
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
