Andreas Gursky Quotes

• In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

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  Art, Reality, Desire

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

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  Distance, World, Another World

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• 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.

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  Our World, World

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• Vision is an intelligent form of thought

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  Intelligent, Vision, Form

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

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  Environment, Individual, Humans

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• A word is worth a thousand images.

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  Thousand

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• 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 planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Our World, Understanding

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

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  Photography, Definitions, Impossible

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• 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.

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  Track, Desire, World

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• 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 and now.

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  Events, Facts, Claims

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• We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

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  Choices, Planets, Deals

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• I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

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  Goal, Pursue

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• My father did advertising photography.

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  Photography, Father, Advertising

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