John Gutmann Quotes

• Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

  John Gutmann

  Important, Want, Photograph

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• As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.

  John Gutmann

  Believe, Want, Association

  Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

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• I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.

  John Gutmann

  Art, Believe, Essence

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• To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

  John Gutmann

  Photography, Ideas, Painting

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