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Emmet Gowin has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will…
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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…
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Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something…
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We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.
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For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to…
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All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
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As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would…
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at…
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It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where…
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The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would…
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The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already…
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All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
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The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is…
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When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud…
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What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a…
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If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.
— Eddie Adams
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Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news…
— Sally Mann
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping…
— John French Sloan
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
— Helen Frankenthaler
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I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and…
— Lara Stone
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I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a…
— Andy Warhol
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I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to…
— Weegee
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