"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 reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously."

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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 #Years Quotes #Waste Quotes

“If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (1998). “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”, p.35, Penguin
“Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.”
“I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.”
“Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new”
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”
“I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.”
“Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.”

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