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

- Thomas Ruff

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I woul…

- Thomas Ruff

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

- 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

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

Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say, because the image i…

- 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