Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
Emmet GowinI need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you donโt tell them or write them down, if you donโt make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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 GowinI was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
Emmet GowinI want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."
Emmet Gowin