John Gutmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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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?
I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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.
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,
In a photograph a personâ€™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.

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