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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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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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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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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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There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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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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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.
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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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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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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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