Thomas Demand Quotes

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

Things just enter reality through photographs.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.