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

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

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

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 see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

- 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…

- Wolfgang Tillmans

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

- 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.

- 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…

- Wolfgang Tillmans