Thomas Demand famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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Things just enter reality through photographs.
-- Thomas Demand

#Reality #Photograph
I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.
-- Thomas Demand

#Thinking #World
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.
-- Thomas Demand

#Thinking #Want #Figures
My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.
-- Thomas Demand

#Vision #Ghost
[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.
-- Thomas Demand

#Forever #Vision #Moments

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.
I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.
With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.
When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when you can come back and ask again.
I have more faith now than I ever had before.
The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.
I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
Iâ€™m going with Darrelle Revis.
There was a time when He was not.

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