Top 19 Thomas Ruff Quotes
#1. There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it's not a photograph.
Thomas Ruff
#2. A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable.
Justin Cronin
#3. My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.
Thomas Ruff
#4. I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.
Thomas Ruff
#7. If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?
Thomas Ruff
#8. Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.
Thomas Ruff
#9. I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
Thomas Ruff
#10. A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
Thomas Ruff
#12. Her eyebrows were so blonde they were almost invisible, making it difficult for her to look angry, apologetic or quizzical.
Joe Dunthorne
#13. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.
Thomas Ruff
#15. Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.
Emery Lord
#16. The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.
Thomas Ruff
#17. Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
#18. Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous
#19. I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that ... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
Mayim Bialik
