"All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand."

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Emmet Gowin

#Photography Quotes #Important Quotes

“I don't like to sit still.”
“Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes”
“I was really inspired by intense nature and landscapes, and I'm always inspired by open spaces and giving room for things to grow sound-wise and visually. I have a bit of claustrophobia myself which I think translates into my music.”
“Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.”
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”
“Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”
“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

Source : "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.
“I spend a lot of time at my sonâ€™s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.”

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