Growing up in the '80s, questions of style and music and youth culture all seemed inherently political - like gay rights issues, dressing up, wearing makeup, arms protests. A lot of attitude and opinions were expressed through clothes, and they… — 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
My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness… — 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… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and more of… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
