Gutmann Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

Gail Carriger

#3. The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

#4. When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

Elizabeth Neel

#5. That's the interferingest chap I ever see,

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

Anne Sexton

#7. What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Mark Doty

#8. 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

#9. Finding something spherical in space indicates that you have found a place where gravity has taken over.

Mike Brown

#10. Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

Gretel Ehrlich

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Jake Bugg

#14. There is a presence within you
that has never suffered.
It lives in joy that has no cause.
It is who you most deeply are.

Jan Frazier

#15. For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.

Eric Hobsbawm