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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
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Brooklyn
New York
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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Gesture is not always action.
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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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 cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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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 don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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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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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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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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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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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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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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