Top 30 Gursky Quotes
#1. I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
Claire Tomalin
#2. I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.
Ray Liotta
#4. Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Andreas Gursky
#5. For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.
William Somervile
#6. I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
Andreas Gursky
#7. 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
#9. I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Andreas Gursky
#10. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#12. 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
#13. We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
Andreas Gursky
#14. The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.
Ryan Mark
#15. When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit
Nicole Krauss
#16. Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
Tim Robbins
#18. I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Daniel Clowes
#19. Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.
Mordecai Richler
#20. It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.
Trent Lott
#21. I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
Nicole Krauss
#23. The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Jerry Saltz
#25. Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.
Garbage time is running out.
Can what is playing you make it to level-2?
Nick Land
#26. 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
