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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 know and should take seriously.” quote by Emmet Gowin — Download Open image

“The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.”

Emmet Gowin

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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 you already…

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

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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…

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

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