Gowin Quotes

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

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

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

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

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. — Emmet Gowin

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly. — Emmet Gowin

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." — Emmet Gowin

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

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin