"I feel that whatever picture an artist makes……" — Emmet Gowin

"I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity."

— Emmet Gowin

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19 Quotes by Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only…
You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just…
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to…
We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are…
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it,…
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can…
It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall…
The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your…
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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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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