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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Picture
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Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
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There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
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