Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
