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 (s…

- John Gutmann

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 ma…

- 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…

- John Gutmann

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