Andreas Gursky famous quotes

05-13-2025

Vision is an intelligent form of thought
-- Andreas Gursky

#Intelligent #Vision #Form
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

#Track #Desire #World
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. For me itâ€™s more a synonym. I read a picture not for whatâ€™s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Our World #Trying #Location
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Environment #Individual #Humans
My father did advertising photography.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Photography #Father #Advertising
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Goal #Pursue
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Distance #World #Another World
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

#Our World #World
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.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Art #Reality #Desire
A word is worth a thousand images.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Thousand
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Photography #Definitions #Impossible
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.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Events #Facts #Claims
We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Choices #Planets #Deals

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