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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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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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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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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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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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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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... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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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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