I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to… — Thomas Ruff Thinking Copy Share Image
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff Copies 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… — Thomas Ruff Behave 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… — Thomas Ruff Different 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… — Thomas Ruff Accepting 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,… — Thomas Ruff Art Copy Share Image
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff Depicted 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… — Thomas Ruff Believe Copy Share Image
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. — Thomas Ruff Kind Copy Share Image
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. — Thomas Ruff Academy Copy Share Image
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different? — Thomas Ruff Different 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… — Thomas Ruff Believe 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,… — Thomas Ruff Depiction 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… — Thomas Ruff Cameras Copy Share Image
Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that… — Thomas Ruff Care Copy Share Image
