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…

- Emmet Gowin

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you do…

- Emmet Gowin

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

- Emmet Gowin

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a remin…

- Emmet Gowin

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 li…

- Emmet Gowin

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

- Emmet Gowin

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 dow…

- Emmet Gowin

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world …

- Emmet Gowin

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 …

- Emmet Gowin