Andreas Gursky Quotes

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

I'm an outsider, I guess.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I have X'd myself from your world.

I've been out on the periphery.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

Thank god, I'm not from this world.

My thoughts and I were of another world.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.