Big idea Quote by Wolfgang Tillmans

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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