Gursky Quotes

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

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life. ~ Andreas Gursky

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

A word is worth a thousand images. ~ Andreas Gursky

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

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

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

THE DEATH OF LEOPOLD GURSKY Leopold Gursky started dying on August 18, 1920. He died learning to walk. He died standing at the blackboard. And once, also, carrying a heavy tray. He died practicing a new way to sign his name. Opening a window. Washing his genitals in the bath. He died alone, because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. Or he died thinking about Alma. Or when he chose not to. ~ Nicole Krauss

My father did advertising photography. ~ Andreas Gursky

When you reach that point in your life when letting go and setting your elf free is ur last option, set yourself free and just letting go for now u know there's no need for you. ~ Josie Gursky

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world. ~ Andreas Gursky

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. ~ Jerry Saltz

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. ~ Andreas Gursky

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