I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

- Andreas Gursky

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

- Andreas Gursky

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

- Andreas Gursky

Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a pl…

- Andreas Gursky

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

- Andreas Gursky

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

- Andreas Gursky

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here…

- Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

- Andreas Gursky

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

- Andreas Gursky