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

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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

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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

Source : 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

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“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

“I think it's really important to live in the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

“You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.”

Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”

“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”

“I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.”

“Photograph each day so we can live forever”

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.”