"For me, pictures provide a means of holding,……" — Emmet Gowin
"For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another."
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19 Quotes by Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin has 19 quotes on this site.
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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only…
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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…
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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…
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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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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are…
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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,…
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can…
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It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall…
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The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your…
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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,…
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This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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