Andreas Gursky quotes
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“Vision is an intelligent form of thought”
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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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“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 it’s more a synonym. 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 GurskySource : "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.
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“I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.”
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“I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.”
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“I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from 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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“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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“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.”
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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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“We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.”
-- Andreas Gursky
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