Exhilarating Quotes by Emmet Gowin

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

— Emmet Gowin

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

— Emmet Gowin

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,…

— Emmet Gowin

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit…

— Emmet Gowin

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you…

— Emmet Gowin

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already…

— Emmet Gowin

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a…

— Emmet Gowin

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

— Emmet Gowin

Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open…

— Emmet Gowin

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

— Emmet Gowin

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

— Emmet Gowin