"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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“I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.”

Source : "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
“The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.”
“There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.”
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
“The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.”
“Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.”
“Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.”
“It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.”

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