"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."

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

John Gutmann

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“He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.”
“Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.”
“I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.”
“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.”
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
“Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.”
“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”

Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK
“Mirth is God's medicine.”

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