"Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things……" — Emmet Gowin
"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 leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'"
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Emmet Gowin
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19 Quotes by Emmet Gowin
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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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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…
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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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