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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
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Brooklyn
New York
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Climax
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.
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The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
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It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
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Gesture is not always action.
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Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
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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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Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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