Important Quote by Emmet Gowin Download Open image “All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.” — Emmet Gowin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Inspirational Love Photographer Photography
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… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's… — William Shatner 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
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
