Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Wolfgang Tillmans:
It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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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.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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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.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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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.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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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.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.
~Wolfgang Tillmans
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