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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Persons
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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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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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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Gesture is not always action.
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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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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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One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.
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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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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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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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