A photographic imagination

Luc Tuymans in ModernPainter

"Photographs are akin to the way I paint. They aren't really photographs; they're liquid in which an image appears. It's precisely their inherent element of loss and possible failure that I value."

"Paintings are akin to the way I make photographs. They aren't really paintings, they're pixels in which an image appears. It is precisely their inherent element of loss and possible failure that I value."