In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

- Thomas Ruff

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when we were browsing…

- Thomas Ruff

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

- Thomas Ruff

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

- Thomas Ruff

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more inform…

- Thomas Ruff

Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So i…

- Thomas Ruff

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

- Thomas Ruff

If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than…

- Thomas Ruff

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always …

- Thomas Ruff