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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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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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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 pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
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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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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.
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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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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You cannot accurately remember color.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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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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