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Emmet Gowin Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.



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.

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.



The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us





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You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.



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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.



I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.



I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.



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