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 More Quotes by John Gutmann More Quotes From John Gutmann 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 importantphotographwant 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 associationwantbelieve 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 essencebelieveart
