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 GowinI want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."
Emmet GowinFor me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
Emmet GowinYouโre always working at the margin of what you donโt understand, thatโs the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
Emmet Gowin