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Top 15 Emmet Gowin Quotes (2025 Update)

Emmet Gowin Quote: “Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.”

1. “Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.”

2. “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

Emmet Gowin Quote: “I am pessimistic about a picture’s power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, “Here I am, this is what I am like,” and the person seeing the picture says in return, ‘You know a lot but you don’t know half of what I know.’”

3. “I am pessimistic about a picture’s power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, “Here I am, this is what I am like,” and the person seeing the picture says in return, ‘You know a lot but you don’t know half of what I know.’”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “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 know is condescending, and a waste of your time.”

4. “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 know is condescending, and a waste of your time.”

— Emmet Gowin

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

5. “For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise – who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.”

6. “As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise – who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.”

7. “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

Emmet Gowin Quote: “I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.”

8. “I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.”

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

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

10. “Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Emmet Gowin Quote: “I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself – a matter of identity.”

12. “I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself – a matter of identity.”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “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.’”

13. “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.’”

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Emmet Gowin Quote: “I want my photographs to say: “Look-there’s this thing you haven’t seen that you should see.””

15. “I want my photographs to say: “Look-there’s this thing you haven’t seen that you should see.””

— Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin Quote: “All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.”

16. “All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.”

— Emmet Gowin

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

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

— Emmet Gowin

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