Emmet Gowin Quotes
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
Quotes to Explore
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
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I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
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I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.
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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
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People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.
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I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
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Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
