"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."

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Source : "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

Emmet Gowin

#Photography Quotes #Done Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I feel very lucky. I have a husband and baby that I adore. I have a career I really love. When I sit back and reflect, it's, like, wow! I am very grateful.”
“[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.”
“I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
“Reform is born of need, not pity.”
“Vampires are very sexy right now. It's kind of disgusting. It's kind of a bandwagon.”
“Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.”
“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.229, Pluto Press

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