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> [I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-am-pessimistic-about-a-picture-s-power-to-be-the-emissary-of-just/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

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## More 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-was-going-round-the-world-searching-for-an-interesting-place-when-i/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/the-challenge-of-photography-is-to-show-the-thing-photographed-so/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-want-my-photographs-to-say-look-there-s-this-thing-you-haven-t-seen/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/photography-is-such-an-important-instrument-in-the-education-of-our/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/what-s-great-is-that-the-picture-is-already-taken-before-it-goes/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/as-a-good-picture-would-come-i-would-never-know-exactly-what-i-had/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/you-re-always-working-at-the-margin-of-what-you-don-t-understand-that/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-made-10-times-as-many-images-as-the-other-students-he-says-of-the/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/this-is-the-gift-of-the-landscape-photograph-that-the-heart-finds-a/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/twentieth-century-art-has-allowed-me-to-see-things-in-a-cryptic-way-i/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/for-me-pictures-provide-a-means-of-holding-intensely-a-moment-of/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/we-tremble-at-the-feelings-we-experience-as-our-sense-of-wholeness-is/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-feel-that-whatever-picture-an-artist-makes-it-is-in-part-a-picture/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/it-might-take-us-a-lifetime-to-find-out-what-it-is-we-need-to-say/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

> [I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmet-gowin/i-need-to-say-to-you-there-are-things-in-your-life-that-only-you-will/)

[Emmet Gowin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmet-gowin/)

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