Wolfgang Tillmans quotes

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use. (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 there's closure. View quote
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 superficial is what meets the eye. View quote
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 was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image. View quote
Wolfgang Tillmans
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. View quote
Wolfgang Tillmans
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. View quote
Wolfgang Tillmans
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. View quote
Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans - Image
Photo: user:Hpschaefer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: German Photographer
Born: August 16, 1968
Quotes count: 7