Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.
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
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
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the int… - Wolfgang Tillmans
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the int…
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
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the traged… - Wolfgang Tillmans
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the traged…
Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successfu… - Wolfgang Tillmans
Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successfu…
I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use. - Wolfgang Tillmans
I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. - Wolfgang Tillmans
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation. - Wolfgang Tillmans
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.
The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this absurd act of pissing on a chair rather than in a toile… - Wolfgang Tillmans
The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this absurd act of pissing on a chair rather than in a toile…
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